Sentences with phrase «number of asylum»

This trend started in the early 2000s, the point at which the number of asylum applications in the UK peaked.

The number of asylum applications that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received has increased significantly in recent years, from 56,912 in FY 2014, to 84,236 in FY 2015, to 115,888 in FY 2016.

According to Eurostat, the number of asylum seekers in the European Union's 28 member states reached a record 626,000 in 2014, with no sign that the flow will abate any time soon.

In seven years, the number of asylum seekers has nearly doubled in France to reach more than 66,000 cases in 2013.

Since January 2017 Reuters has sought to obtain the numbers of asylum seekers who walked across the U.S. border into Canada in the years prior to Trump's election.

People vastly overestimate the numbers of asylum seekers in the UK.

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Becoming increasingly overwhelmed with the thousands of migrants arriving, Hungary closed its borders with its Balkan neighbour Serbia by building a fence forcing the asylum seekers to enter neighboring Croatia, which now says it is struggling to cope with the numbers arriving as a result.

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

Mr. Trump's promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants to Mexico has raised fears of a potential spike in the number of Mexican asylum - seekers coming to Canada when the visa requirement is lifted Dec. 1.

Since the start of the war, the number of Syrian asylum petitions has steadily risen.

Supported by a range of Premier League clubs, the EFL, the FA Women's Super League, and a number of non-league and grassroots teams, Football Welcomes also highlights the role clubs can play in welcoming refugees and asylum seekers and promoting integration.

A fall in asylum support in 2011 actually saw an increase in the number of applications.

I interviewed dozens of experts, social workers, lawyers and asylum - seeking teenagers and found that, far from being welcomed to safety, vulnerable children face an overwhelming number of obstacles.

Spurred by fear of Trump's immigration policies, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum and crossing illegally from upstate New York into Canada.

I was having a fairly pleasant morning listening to Today on Radio 4 where a number of French women were discussing why they had sought tax asylum in the UK.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

This incredibly brave gay leader is just another number and the failure to grant him asylum is affecting the ability of Iraqi gays to draw the world's attention to their plight.

I met dozens of refugees from across the Middle East, as well as people who were seeking asylum from a number of countries in North Africa.

The EU's asylum laws were designed in the 1990s to handle small numbers of people.

It seems that not only are the natives so terrified of the dig as to have deserted it in great numbers, but also that the previous head of the expedition has gone mad and been interred in an asylum, where he spends his time drawing devilish things with charcoal.

Due to a high number of refugees and asylum - seekers, South Africa claims that it has no sufficient resources to assist them and fear that the distribution of its resources to non-citizens will drain it and may create social tension between citizens and non-citizens.

The current political attitude is concerned with closing the borders and to reduce the number of refugees and asylum - seekers within South Africa.

The high number of refugees and asylum - seekers create a disproportionately high demand of social services in South Africa and yield undesired demand consequences such as: social fragmentation, unemployment, and the continued possibility of tension and conflict.

Nonetheless, the perception persists that a higher number of refugees and asylum - seekers pose a threat to South Africa's interest, especially in the area of national security, socio - economic liberalisation and economic globalisation.

The rising number of people fleeing their countries to avoid war, violence and prosecution and trying to reach Europe seeking for asylum has brought to the surface the European refugee crisis.

In South Africa, they find themselves in a xenophobic environment due to the majority of South African's fear that non-citizens might benefit from the fruits of their liberation struggle.42 South Africa is the country that has the third highest number of refugees and asylum - seekers in the world.43 For instance, between 2008 and 2013, it has registered 869100 asylum - seekers.

This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul - mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great - granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers - on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real - life literary figures, and random acquaintances.

In 1828, it was Blackwell's, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse and a number of hospitals.

He brought his award - winning musical composition skills to a number of incredibly popular and successful videogame titles, such as the God of War franchise, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and other blockbuster titles.

With the massive increase in criminal activity, neither Arkham Asylum nor Blackgate Prison is able to contain the large number of inmates.

A series of associated events honour a number of campaigns for social equality and change: inviting groups to highlight the human rights of asylum seekers and organising readings that celebrate seminal texts from the protests of May 1968.

Establishing direct links between climate change and migration, «like skyrocketing asylum applications and temperature,» can be difficult because of the vast number of variables involved, Newsweek concedes, while pointing to «the influence of drought in the years - long Syrian conflict, New Zealand's recent proposal to create a visa category for climate refugees and the United Nations» recent recognition that climate change can contribute to displacement within countries and internationally.»

Currently there are only a limited number of cases where this would apply in any event, such as those involving the loss of the person's home and asylum work or where the case appears to have a significant wider public interest or is of overwhelming importance to the client;

Legal Week reports that the pro bono panel will be on hand to offer advice on a number of legal issues, including sport, crime, defamation and privacy, immigration and asylum, discrimination and personal injury.

The supervisory immigration judges will be able to devote full - time to moving cases, resulting in an increase of about 50 percent in the number of immigration judges handling asylum claims, he said.

If we compare figures between 2011 and 2004 there has been a doubling of the number of applications for permission in asylum cases — from 4207 to 8649.

As to actual substantive decisions, the number in civil cases has remained exactly the same (87), those relating to criminal matters have reduced (33 as against 43) and the number of successful asylum cases has remained small though it has risen (from 26 to 54).

It was set up as a specialist structure to cope with a heavy workload of immigration and asylum cases and reduce the number of these cases being heard by the Court of Appeal.

A record number of applications were lodged last year, mainly driven by a rise in immigration and asylum cases.

Planned reforms will divert substantial numbers of immigration and asylum cases towards immigration tribunals and away from the judicial review process.»

Imogen has acted as sole counsel for a number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their successful judicial review challenges to local authorities» «age assessments» which found them to be over 18 years old.

The number of first - time asylum applications in Europe dropped by nearly half in 2017.

Prior to joining the Immigrant Council of Ireland he worked in the Asylum / Immigration Division of KOD Lyons Solicitors a specialist human rights practice for a number of years

The data collected include information on outcomes of child abuse reports, numbers availing of family support services, numbers and categories of children in care, numbers availing of youth homelessness services, and services for separated children seeking asylum.