Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees
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The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) is based at the Runnymede offices. ICAR seeks to encourage understanding, public debate and policy making about asylum and refugees in the UK, grounded in accurate and academically sourced information. ICAR aims to: |
- collect and make available independent information on asylum in the UK
- undertake research, publish and teach on UK asylum and global refugee issues
- generate new thinking on asylum and raise the level of public debate
- provide consultancy expertise to government, practitioners, funders and community organisations.
ICAR has a large web site, examples of its content include:
- Weekly Asylum Update of recent research, policy and law, resources and events
- Statistics on asylum and refugee populations
- Briefings about issues relevant to asylum and refugee populations in the UK
- Information about our current and past research projects and publications to download
- ASK ICAR! Enquiry service
- Research Directory with over 2000 entries detailing research into refugee and asylum issues in the UK
- Mapping the UK, a list of UK Cities with details of the asylum and refugee populations, history and resources
You can contact the ICAR team at the Runnymede offices:
tel: 020 7377 9222 fax: 020 7377 6622
email: icar@runnymedetrust.org
To contact an individual member of staff or to find out more about the team please visit the ICAR staff page
To find out more about our media services, see the ICAR media section
Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR)
c/oThe Runnymede Trust
7 Plough Yard
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3LP
If you would like to support the future of the organisation, all donations are gratefully received. Please click on the link below to donate online or send cheques addressed to ICAR to the address above.
