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Asylum seekers from South Asia
‘13k Indians applied for asylum in the last 2 years’
Kounteya Sinha TNN
London: Nearly 13,000 Indians applied for asylum in 44 industrialized countries in the last two years, figuring among the top asylum seekers in countries like Australia, Cyprus, Lithuania and Japan.
The United Nations Refugee Agency’s latest Asylum Trends 2013 report said 6,12,700 people applied for asylum in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Pacific last year —the highest total for any year since 2001.
According to the latest data, 6998 Indians applied for asylum in 2012 — the number dipping by 16% to 5872 in 2013. India was ranked 18th among asylum applications in 2012, it dropped to 26th the following year. Europe was the top destination for Indian asylumseekers —6300 applications in 2012 and 2013.
As many as 1393 Indians wanted asylum in Canada and US while 1162 wanted Australia and New Zealand. Around 165 applied for asylum in South Korea.
In comparison the number of Pakistani asylum-seekers increased from 23,640 to 26310 between 2012 and 2013. Bangladesh too saw a 47% increase in asylum-seekers – 6583 in 2012 to 9659 in 2013.
U.K. and South Asian asylum seekers in 2014
The Times of India, Sep 05 2015
Kounteya Sinha
Pakistanis among top asylum-seekers to Britain in 2014
Four of India's immediate neighbours -Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka -have emerged as the top applicants for asylum to UK in 2014. Pakistan was on top with 2,711 applicants followed by 1,282 from Sri Lanka, 1,136 from Afghanistan and nearly 800 from Bangladesh. Eritrea with 3,239 applications was the top applicant for asylum to UK in 2014. The other countries in the list were Iran with 2,011 applications, Albania (1,576), Sudan (1,449) and Nigeria (875). The Home Office immigration stats revealed by the Oxford Migration Observatory shows that men made up nearly (73%) main applicants for asylum in 2014.Eurostat data for top five European countries and UK in terms of 2014 asylum applications shows that the highest numbers of claims were seen in Germany (202,815), Sweden (81,325) and Italy (64,625).
