Law and Society: Discrimination Faced by Asylum Seekers

Law Society
And Controversy

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Issue and area of discrimination in the social group..............................................................3
Legislation..............................................................................................................................4
Case Law................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES...................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The law and society is based on the belief that the rules and decisions must be in accordance
with the society. The relationship devise a phrase ‘the effects of law affects the society’. The
mutual relationship exists between law and society. For society law act as guidelines in
accordance with the changing environment. The absence of law may led too many conflicts in
the society. The rules help the society to lead progress and development. Thus, law helps in
shaping the society (Edge and Harvey, 2017).
Discrimination is rampant and it means treating people worse just because of their belonging
to social salient groups. It includes groups based on gender, race, ethnicity, age asylum seekers,
refugees, disability and others. The discrimination is further bifurcated as Direct and Indirect and
causes the discriminatory effect with and without intent. Thus, the report examines the social
group Asylum Seekers and their area of discrimination accompanied by effective legislation and
case laws.
MAIN BODY
Issue and area of discrimination in the social group
Throughout the world asylum seeker and other social groups faces the racial discrimination,
racist attacks and ethnic intolerance. Over the past decades tremendous number of asylum
seekers and refugees faced hostile welcome. An asylum seeker is a part of social group and refer
to someone who is seeking international protection but their status as refugees has not yet
determined. The report spotlight the area of discrimination faced by the asylum seekers. Mostly
they face racial discrimination because of such disparity the asylum seeker in United Kingdom
conceal their identity in order to avoid racist attacks. It is found that the people seeking asylum in
UK are not disclosing the true identity in public places and further triggered by political
discourse (Buzan and Schouenborg, 2018). The asylum seeker are adopting strategies such as
self-censorship to avoid being discriminates. These social group are not choosing not to disclose
their identity and thus not able to engage with the process of finding protection themselves.
Racial discrimination is triggered in such manner that these social groups are taking
defensive measures. Most of asylum seekers are from the conflicting countries. This is because
their experiences includes violence, assaults on their social, economic and cultural institution.
Whereas some asylum seekers are highly skilled and used to have high standards of living in