Asylum Seeking and Refugees

Child asylum seekers and refugees is a very interesting topic to focus your dissertation on. Whether it is a specific community, country or individual case, choosing this topic for your dissertation can be both enlightening and captivating. Take a look at some of our examples:

Example asylum seeking and refugees dissertation topic 1:

Support networks and facilities for unaccompanied, asylum-seeking children between the ages of 12 and 16: An evaluation of services in the UK.

Most children who arrive as unaccompanied asylum-seekers are aged in their mid-teens (Wade, 2011), which provides a variety of challenges, both in terms of their natural psycho-social maturation and as a result of the trauma they are likely to have suffered prior to their arrival in the UK. This dissertation investigates the services available to such children with a particular focus on support networks that are based upon the child’s ethnicity and nationality. Undertaking both primary and secondary research, the paper also provides recommendations for improved services within the parameters of current budget constraints.

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Kohli, R.K.S. (2006a). ‘The comfort of strangers: Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in the UK’. Child & Family Social Work, Vol. 11, pp. 1-10.
• Kohli, R.K.S. (2006b). ‘The sound of silence: Listening to what unaccompanied asylum-seeking children say and do not say’, British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 35(5), pp. 707-722.
• Wade, J. (2011). ‘Preparation and transition planning for unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee young people: A review of evidence in England’, Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 33(12), pp. 2424-2430.