Research Report: Unmet Healthcare Needs of Asylum Seekers in Glasgow

This report investigates the unmet healthcare needs of asylum seekers in Glasgow. It begins by defining asylum seekers and outlining the challenges they face, including eviction and lack of basic needs. The research employs a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals, social workers, and a representative from Serco, to gain a comprehensive understanding. An exploratory, cross-sectional research design is used, incorporating primary data collection through surveys and interviews, alongside secondary data from literature reviews. The report details the research methodology, including sampling techniques and the pragmatic research philosophy, and discusses the strengths and limitations of the study design. The research aims to identify specific unmet health requirements and propose effective strategies for improving healthcare access and addressing the challenges faced by asylum seekers in Glasgow.

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Research topic: What are the unmet health needs of asylum seekers in Glasglow?
Introduction
The term asylum seeker refers to an individual who flees their home country enters
another nation as well as applies for asylum. Asylum seekers comprises of 5 percent of the
immigrants to the United Kingdom in 2018. Considering the fact that the population of the nation
is increasing with time, the number of asylum seekers who are permitted to enter the nation is
decreasing with time. The UK government has made control of borders central to its Brexit
strategy. Glassglow, being the most popular city in Scotland and the third most popular city in
the United Kingdom is facing issues to meet the heath needs of the asylum seekers. Asylum
seekers who are evicted are seen to sleeping on footpaths of Glasgow (Haj-Younes et al., 2018).
In 2017, a controversial lock change policy has been announced by the Private housing provider
Serco. The mentioned policy includes eviction of asylum seekers whose appeal has been refused
by the government. Hundreds of asylum seekers who are subjected to the policy are unable to
meet basic needs of life that includes food, shelter and healthcare facilities (Villarroel-Williams
et al., 2018). The purpose of this research paper is to find out the healthcare needs of the asylum
seekers that are not getting met. A detailed identification of the research strategy has been
discussed bellow.

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Fig 1: Asylum Seeker
Source (Pottie et al., 2018)

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Fig 2: Number of Children waiting for asylum decision
Source (Fassetta & Quinn, 2018)
Research approach
For this research, a mixed research approach will be conducted. The term mixed method
can be defined as an emergent research methodology that advances the systematic integration as
well a mixing of quantitative as well as qualitative data within a single investigation or sustained
program of inquiry. The mixed research approach is generally used by the researchers in order to

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ensure incorporation the benefits of both qualitative as well as quantitative research approach
Quantitive data helps the researcher to get close ended information that is statistical information
associated with the research question and thus the data obtained are highly accurate (DeCuir-
Gunby & Schutz, 2018). However, this research approach lacks the potential to provide the
research with an in-depth understanding of the research issue. However, in depth understanding
of a particular research issue can be gained with the help of qualitative analysis. On the other
hand, benefit of both qualitative as well as quantitiative research method, the mixed research
approach will be selected for this research.
Fig 2: qualitative research approaches
Source (Ziersch et al., 2018)

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Fig 2: Quantitative research approaches
Source (Villarroel-Williams et al., 2018)
Considering the fact that the study aims to find out the unmet health needs of asylum
seekers in Glasglow, taking a mixed method approach will not only prove an in depth
understanding the research issue, but will also provide the researcher with accurate data the heath
care issues faced by the asylum seekers and lack of services to eradicate the same. For collecting
data for the quantitative research approach, a survey will be conduct. Interview of healthcare
professionals will be conducted in order to gain an in depth understanding of the health issues
that are faced by asylum seekers in Glasglow. Using the mixed method approach will enhance
the accuracy of the study along with helping the researchers to have an in-depth understanding of
the research issue.
Research design

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The research design of this research has been selected according to the two typologies of
different research designs. Based on the objective forming typology of research design, the
chosen research design is exploratory. This research design will allow the researcher to explore
the underlying unknown variables associated with the unmet heath needs of the asylum seekers
in Glasglow (Mackey & Bryfonski, 2018). Another major reason for selecting the exploratory
research design for this study is that highly limited amount of study has been conducted on the
chosen research issue that is the unmet health requirements of the asylum seekers in Glassglow.
Hence limited amount of prior information is available on the issue from the past researchers.
According to researchers, exploratory research design is conducted for a research issue that has
not been research on a hue scale before, demands priorities, generate operational definitions
(Heslop et al., 2019).
On the other hand, based on the typology of selecting research tools, the selected research
design for this study is the cross sectional design. This research design will allow the researcher
to collect information from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time.
Considering the fact that this research is a non experimental study, for this research, cross section
study design will be selected. This research design will help the researcher to gather primary data
associated with the research topic by conducting survey and interviews.
Key features of the methodology
The key features of the methodology of this research are as follows:
1. The research will collect both primary as well as secondary data. While primary data will
help the researcher to get accurate and up to date information about the unmet health
requirements faced by the population of Glasgow, like, what specific health issues are

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faced by the asylum seekers and strategies taken by the government to deal with the
same, secondary information will help the researcher to obtain an in-depth understand of
the impact of unmet heath requirements of the asylum seekers and effective strategies to
met the same (Abro, Khurshid & Aamir, 2015).
2. Considering the fact that for this research exploratory research design has-been selected
as the sty design to be followed, the research paper ill be interactive, open ended,
inexpensive an interactive in nature.
3. The research type will be unstructured.
4. For this research both interview as well as survey will be collected as a source of primary
data collection. For this a survey questionnaire containing 10 survey questions will be
designed. For conducting the interview, 1 healthcare professional, 1 social worker and
the CEO of Serco will be interviewed. 3 separate questionnaire containing 5 questions
each will be developed.
5. For conducting the survey, sampling will be conducted with the help of the probability
sample on method. The term probability sampling can be defined as a sampling technique
where participants are selected from a larger population in a random way on the basis of
the theory of probability. For this study, 5 random asylum seekers from the Glasglow city
will be surveyed. For the interview, convenience sampling method will be selected. The
chief purpose of conducting the interview will be to acquire detailed knowledge about the
importance of the health condition of the asylum seekers, current unmet heath
requirements and strategies that needs to be implemented to meet the same.
6. For collecting secondary information for this research, review of literatures that are
relevant to the research topic will be conducted.

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Research philosophy
For this study the Pragmatism research philosophy will be used. The pragmatism research
philosophy needs to accept the concepts that are relent only in case they support action.
According to this research philosophy, there resent different ways of interpreting the world as
well as undertaking a research. And thus, a single point of view does not possess the potential to
provide the entire picture since there may be multiple way of interpreting a certain research issue
(McCusker & Gunaydin, 2015). The pragmatism research philosophy can be considered to be a
mixture of the positivism as well as the interpretivism research philosophy. Considering the fact
that for this research, both primary and secondary data collection method will be collected to
gain accurate and in depth understanding of the research issue, for this research, pragmatism has
been selected as the research philosophy.
Strengths and limitation of the study design
The strengths of research design are as follows
1. Selecting exploratory research design will help the researcher’s knowledge about the
research issue. On the other hand the cross sectional research design will help the
researcher to draw definite solution de to the presence of the statistical strength
2. Another major strength of this research is flexibility of data sources. Exploratory studies
use secondary sources for instance published literature (Abro et al., 2015). Other
resources that are utilized in exploratory research involves formal structured interviews
and survey
The weaknesses of the research design are as follows

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1. One of the chief weaknesses of the research design is lack of secondary data sources
(McCusker & Gunaydin, 2015). Since highly limited amount of researches has been
conducted on the unmet health needs of the asylum seekers in Glasglow, limited amount
of data sources can be used for the literature review.
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formulate research stratagy
formulate research questions
Identify research area
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Fig 2: Gantt Chart for the research
Source (Created by Author)
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that this research will be able to
understand the primary health needs of the asylum seekers in Glasglow that are not met. For
gaining an in-depth understanding of the problem faced by the asylum seekers, both qualitative
and quantitative research approach will be implemented. It can be clearly understand that the

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asylum seekers in Glasgow are suffering from lack of basic survival needs due to the eviction.
This researcher will not only explore the unmet health needs but will also provide effective
strategies that can eradicate the issue of the asylum seekers in near future.

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