Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees

The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK (ICAR) is an academic research and information organisation situated in the School of Social Sciences at City University in London. ICAR aims to: collect and make available independent information on asylum in the UK; undertake research, publish and teach on UK asylum and global refugee issues; explore ways of improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK; generate new thinking on asylum and raise the level of public debate and; provide consultancy expertise to government, practitioners, funders and community organisations.