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• A Stranger in a Strange Land

  Arriving in a new country with little notice or planning can be disorientating at best. Although some of the language may be familiar through years of study, it’s different when you hit the ground running, so to speak. And it isn’t just language... Posted Jul 24 2008, 05:43 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social issues, work, immigration, language, adjustment, travel

• Asylum or Sanctuary?

  Who says words don’t matter? The Evening Standard reports on study from the Independent Asylum Commission which concludes that ‘asylum’ seekers should be renamed ’sanctuary’ seekers due to the negative connotations of the... Posted May 21 2008, 06:40 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social issues, immigration, media, sanctuary, evening standard, language, asylum seeker

• Asylum

  It’s interesting that the meaning of Asylum as a place of safety is often lost amid political footballing of the term, backwards and forwards. I was trying to read through some work-related articles to get some more information for my current work... Posted Apr 22 2008, 08:24 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social issues, immigration, asylum