Griffiths, D. J., N. Sigona, et al. (2005). Refugee community organisations and dispersal: networks, resources and social capital. Bristol, Policy Press.
This book examines the role of refugee community organisations (RCOs) in the UK at a critical point of asylum policy change. The research focuses on the growth in refugee communities and the number of RCOs, the resource and organisational constraints affecting RCOs, and the contested process of defining and representing refugee communities with local policy and political contexts. The research methods include semi-structured interviews with RCOs from across three locations of London, the West Midlands and the North West, aiming to represent the principal nationalities claiming asylum in the 1990s. The qualitative material was analysed by using conventional thematic analysis supplemented with participant observation in a few cases with staff and clients involved in refugee organisations. The book explores the issue of integration of refugees, the concept of social capital, and the role of informal networks and resources for refugee communities.