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A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, April 2022
THE Scottish government will publish plans to allow asylum-seekers the right to work next year, a minister said today.
SNP Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees Emma Roddick pledged to pilot a restoration of the right to work following a recommendation from the government’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Migration and Population.
The advisory group’s chairwoman, Rebecca Kay, said there was “strong international evidence that strict restrictions on the right to work have negative consequences for asylum-seekers’ material and emotional well-being — and for long-term integration outcomes.”
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