Migrant and refugee organisations in the UK as spaces of care

Turcatti, D., Evans, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-5270, Mas Giralt, R., Capstick, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5145-7903, Linley, J., Malik, A., McQuitty, A. and Penaloza T.-Rice, S., (2024) Migrant and refugee organisations in the UK as spaces of care. Policy Brief, Care, Inequalities and Wellbeing in Transnational Families in Europe. University of Reading, University of Leeds, Reading and Leeds. doi: 10.48683/1926.00120307

Abstract/Summary

Migrant and refugee organisations play crucial roles in fostering spaces of care for refugee and other migrant families in the UK. Refugees and other migrants often initially seek support from migrant and refugee organisations with accessing statutory and formal services. They are met with, and develop empathic, supportive relationships with staff, volunteers and peers. Yet migrant and refugee organisations in the UK face considerable challenges including: limited funding, understaffing, insufficient resources to train volunteers, dwindling funding streams and differential entitlements for different groups of refugees and other migrants within the wider hostile environment, and the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. More long-term funding, and support for staff and volunteers, is crucial to enable the development of empathic relationships of trust within diverse organisational settings and sustain much needed safe spaces of care for refugee and migrant families within the community.

Item Type	Report (UNSPECIFIED)
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/120307
Item Type	Report
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Human Environments Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	Refugee organisations, migrant organisations, spaces of care, third sector, empathic relationships, wellbeing, transnational families, intersecting inequalities, refugees, migrants, Refugee Support Group, Reading Community Learning Centre, St Vincent's Leeds, Migrant Support Manchester
Publisher	University of Reading, University of Leeds
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