We have a new partnership project launching in November 2024.
This project explores the use of community assets by refugee, asylum seekers and migrants in their daily lives. Community assets are fundamental to people’s ability to navigate complex and unstable living situations and include community organisations, food banks, green spaces (e.g parks, allotments, gardens etc), blue spaces (e.g. lakes, swimming pools, canals etc) and support services (e.g. law and advice centres, drop-ins etc) among others.
A “community asset” is a service which supports or is used by diverse refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant communities.
The project seeks to understand the ways that these groups make use of the different assets within and beyond their local communities to support their health and well-being – focusing in particular on access to accommodation and housing, food and nutrition and services.
This project is a collaboration between Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Middlesex University (Mdx), University of Greenwich working with a project team of partners including East of England Local Government Association - Strategic Migration Partnership (EELGA SMP), Great Yarmouth Refugee Outreach and Support (GYROS), Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC), Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI), Migration Works CIC, Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN) and Barnet Citizens. It is funded by UK Research and Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the mobilising community assets to tackle health inequalities programme, which aims to improve health through access to culture, nature and community.
For more information, please visit... https://migrefhealth.co.uk
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