Volunteering with asylum seekers and refugees

Why ask women? Good question.

Totally agree.

Yeah i will just volunteer my one day off a week when I clean my house and cook for the week to try and teach mainly men, many of whom are actually economic migrants English.

This is either pathetically naive or ridiculously goady.

Should I have the time to help out which i simply dont, I would gladly if asylum seekers consisted of the people who should be protected from harm. Yazidi women, Afghani interpreters etc.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01403/

Most asylum seekers are from Pakistan and unless you have your head firmly in the sand, you should really very clearly understand that encouraging women to work closely with men from a very culturally different background is a risk and totally inappropriate. There's a reason many of the grooming gangs members are Pakistani Muslims. They view women as objects and Western women as whores. There's a reason asylum seekers in Merseyside thought it was perfectly fine to ask a 15 year old child for a kiss and her phone number.

And don't try to tell me that is a Western perspective. Aziza Chaouni a morrocan architect was on the world service taking about her solo trip across the Sahara and how it informed her designs. When asked about safety as a woman travelling alone, she said it was fine as she was respected because she was a Muslim NOT a Western woman.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35231046.amp

Why do you think the men mentioned in the above article thought it was okay to go about in gangs sexually assaulting German women after Angela Merkal had allowed them wholesale into Germany? They probably thought those women were asking for it for daring to be out without a man.

I can't believe such a dangerously stupid post is in good faith. Surely no one can be this thick? Why ask women to do this work?

Is there a sister post in Reddit and Pistonheads trying to guilt men into this?

Is there fuck.

I’d rather get to know the veterans from my own country first, OP, but you carry on if it makes you feel good. A genuine woman or child asylum seeker, yes, I do have time for. The men, not so much.

Watching people argue in this thread is pointless. You have people who live in areas totally unaffected by migration wondering what all the fuss is about and then the people who actually live amongst this issue and are desperate because of the proven crime increase that are born out my crime statistics as well. Unfortunately its going to take time for this issue to spread to the rural areas of the UK and only then will they will they see your point. Fortunately I left the UK and I only have to visit a couple of times a year now, but my mother doesn't bother leaving the house anymore after one of her friends was mugged by someone outside the hotel in her town and turned out to be a recent arrival not to mention the countless incidents that only make local news regarding sexual assaults, its got to the point now that my nieces have been given advise at school not to walk near the specific hotels in the town centre and make sure you always have company during the day if you have to walk past them. Most people are conflating the hard working visa applying asset to society immigrant to the one who has a criminal conviction in his home country so destroy their documents on the boat here. I mean its pretty common sense that if you get a large number of men dump them in a concentrated area with nothing to do, they will end up doing stuff they shouldn't add into the mix that we have no idea what previous conviction or who these people are. As the saying goes the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

This. 💯

Unless you’ve seen it, from both sides, you can’t possibly have a totally valid view. 🤷‍♀️

It's high time people learned the definition of
Asylum seekers
Economic migrants
Refugees

before throwing around terms like "illegals".

When I've helped refugees whose English isn't very good, they've also been supported by someone from their own community who can translate for them.

If they were genuine refugees why did they not claim asylum I the first safe country they reached?
Why?
Because they are economic migrants and the accommodation and allowances here are too good.
The Rwanda plan was the best . It's a safe country

I work with refugees in a way as part of my job. I like them individually when I get to know them, I appreciate they don't have it easy. I also see that it will be many years before they can work because of language acquisition. I see a lot of them disgruntled because they are struggling to find homes and expect the council to house them. I see many hanging out all day in barbers up to goodness knows what. I also think we have too many young male refugees from very different cultures to the UK.

Years ago I did volunteer. I wouldn’t now.
things have changed, numbers have increased hugely and I’m not persuaded that many now here should be here.

No way! The only ones near me are nothing but trouble,always around the town harassing young women.,I wouldn’t go anywhere near them!

Even the ones that lied to get here? 🙄

No way do we want more!

No thanks, absolutely not.

I'll volunteer with legals not illegals hth

ODFOD

Yabu
we need to stop illegals coming here thanks

Many of us, have already done volunteering and slogged hard at jobs, so don't have much more energy. May I suggest you do you and dont try to control other people's fears, concerns and aspirations. Not all of us need to signal our virtues.

Same. But in my city those seem to be in pretty short supply.

I also think that it very much depends on the cultures that the refugees are coming from and where they cluster. My area of London has received mainly refugees from very rural, non-literate areas of specific Islamic countries, and has the highest concentration nationally of migrants from a few specific states that are notorious for corruption and organised crime (constantly in the media at the moment). Other areas will have a completely different profile.