What is it about?
This article reports research on voluntary work by asylum seekers with four organisations in the voluntary and community sector. It argues that volunteering can have an important impact on asylum seekers' ideas and worldview, but this can vary from contributing to more collective forms of action to individualised strategies.
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Why is it important?
Volunteering is widespread among asylum seekers in Britain, who in most cases are not allowed to perform paid work.
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I wrote this article following my 2012 book Refugees, Capitalism and the British State. It builds on and develops some of the conceptual ideas presented in that book regarding social capital.
Dr Tom Vickers
Nottingham Trent University
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This page is a summary of: Opportunities and Limitations for Collective Resistance Arising from Volunteering by Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Northern England, Critical Sociology, June 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0896920514526623.
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