Refugees and Asylum Seekers 2 - Facts, Figures and Historical Examples
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- Refugees and Asylum Seekers 2 - Facts, Figures and Historical Examples
- The UN's Refugee Agency estimates nearly nine in ten of the world's refugees are sheltered by developing countries
- e.g. in a two week period in 2016, Uganda offered refuge to more people than Britain did all year
- Asylum applications in UK decreased by 25% to 27,316 in year ending June 2017
- Top 3 countries of origin of people applying for asylum in Britain in twelve months to June 2017 were:
- Iran
- Pakistan
- Iraq
- Unlike most European countries, UK has no time limit on length of time someone can be detained
- At end of June 2017, 271 people have been locked up for longer than 6 months, purely for immigration reasons
- At end of June, 38,954 asylum seekers and their dependents were being supported by Government
- This figure is below figure for end of 2003 when there were 80,123 asylum seekers being supported
- People have no say in where they live and are often left to survive on around £5 a day
- Historical examples
- Greeks fleeing the Destruction of Psara in 1824
- Refugees from Herzegovina as a result of the Herzgovina Uprising (1875-77)
- One million Armenians fled Turkey between 1915 and 1923 to escape persecution and genocide
- Spanish children left Spain during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939
- Syria
- Rohingya and Myanmar
- The UN's Refugee Agency estimates nearly nine in ten of the world's refugees are sheltered by developing countries
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