Equal - Digital Repository
- Facilitating access
- Ethnic minorities
- Business creation
- Social economy
- Lifelong learning and inclusive working practices
- Adaptability to work
- Gender equality
- Asylum seekers
ASSET UK - Asylum Seekers
ASSET UK worked with transnational partners in Denmark, Sweden and Ireland to develop and share good practice.
In the context of current EU debates, the UK had experience over several years of permitting asylum seekers to work, whereas the Danish government had not as yet permitted this. In Autumn 2002 the government proposed a new law on integration in Denmark, which included wider access for asylum seekers to the labour market.
The aim was to improve the conditions for asylum seekers, to ensure a smoother integration process for those who receive a residence permit or leave to remain, and a better position for those who are ultimately rejected.
Both projects aim to explore the possibilities for facilitating asylum seekers. Whereas Denmark is very experienced in working within accommodation centres the UK will be moving towards that model during 2002-3.
The DPs were led by NGOs and had partners representing other NGOs working in the refugee or ethnic community field, local authorities, professional education / training organisations and, in different ways, worked closely with their government programmes in support of asylum seekers. The Danish DP also included employer’s organisations and trade unions.
