Author: Maya Pritchard

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Maya Pritchard

Maya Pritchard has been supporting migrant young people and families in the UK since 2007, having worked in advice, support, research and administrative roles across the sector. She has been working as a Youth Caseworker for the South London Refugee Association since 2013 and as a researcher with Asylos since 2015. She now also works for Asylos as their UK Consultant and coordinates the Afghanistan and Pakistan research team. She is a Level 2 OISC accredited immigration and asylum caseworker, has a BA in politics and an LLM in Human Rights Law.

Understandings of and responses to disability vary widely. In the field of international protection, the approach to disability tends to reflect policy and decision-making practices within host states, as well as the understandings and “unconscious biases” of decision-makers, legal representatives, and country of origin researchers. Asylos and ARC Foundation have...

16th December 2021
BY Maya Pritchard

There are growing concerns around the Home Office’s treatment of children and young people from Albania, with legal practitioners now raising the alarm about the increasing certification of Albanian asylum applications as ‘clearly unfounded’. At the same time, significant gaps in evidence are consistently acting as a barrier to successful...

5th June 2019
BY Maya Pritchard

A new report helps fill some of the gaps in our understanding of the situation facing young men sent back to Afghanistan, writes Maya Pritchard of Asylos. While we await the outcome of AS (Afghanistan), the country guidance case currently before the Upper Tribunal addressing the safety of Kabul, for...

21st December 2017
BY Maya Pritchard
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