Briefing Paper 3: Asylum Seekers and Refugees

The city of Glasgow has been accommodating asylum seekers since 1999, under contractual arrangements with the UK Home Office dispersal programme.  

By the end of the first five-year contract (2005), some 12,000 asylum seekers had been accommodated in the city, with 2,500 social rented housing units having been made available for this purpose.  The research reported here took place in the two years after this initial period of settlement, when the initial contract with the Home Office had been extended.