Addressing the gendered dynamics of asylum seeker and refugee integration provision in Scotland

In the UK, gender disparities in immigration and to develop integration and gender policy in collaboration with integration systems begin at the point of arrival and persist and in support of existing expertise. [...] integration environments, and are compounded by a civic and policymaking infrastructure in which displaced women’s The gendered impacts of integration services and integration organisations are inconsistently and under-resourced, resulting processes are likely to affect displaced migrants’ access to in barriers to participation in policy and civic activities. [...] In the Challenges and Potentials meantime, housing processes are inadequately equipped to There is clear scope for the Scottish Government to mobilise its respond to the needs of trans, non-binary and queer displaced devolved capacity to act on the combined effects of gender and migrants. [...] women by the organised targeting of ‘clustered’ • Close the Gap initiative to develop a specialist research and accommodation policy stream about race, displacement and gender in the • The Home Office/ Mears/ Migrant Help to track and act labour market. [...] existing BAME and displaced women’s groups to expand • FE and LA ESOL Providers to explore new ways of knowledge of race and immigration on policy areas, and to working to accommodate childcare needs, such as offer collaboration and capacity building in established policy remote working, or allowing children into class.