15 November 2022
On human rights declarations and conventions to which the UK is a signatory:
"Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
THERE are at present no safe and legal routes to asylum in the U.K."
On the consequences of Brexit:
"Brexit meant that the European agreements on asylum – known as Dublin III – were undone by the UK Government. These allowed for asylum seekers arriving in the European Union
to be expected to make their claim in the first country of arrival. This has now been torn up as a result of Brexit and the UK has gone it alone."
On our obligations:
"There is nothing at all easy about fulfilling our obligations. There is nothing straightforward about balancing the needs of the homeless and destitute in our own society and the need to welcome the stranger and the person seeking asylum. A grown up country will make careful, balanced decisions, will learn from mistakes, refine and adjust and will use the treatment of those seeking asylum to redouble its efforts to create a long term policy or, for instance, language education, or the extension of social housing."
Alison Phipps is UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow.
Linking to this tweet from the New Statesman using data from The Migration Observatory:
On refugee numbers compared to the Ukraine resettlement scheme:
A recent article 'Q&A: The UK and the Ukraine refugee situation' states that:
"In less than six months, more people have received protection in the UK under the Ukraine schemes than received protection under the UK’s main asylum and refugee resettlement routes from 2016 – 2021"
Giving totals:
Ukraine schemes total (to Aug 2022): 115,200
Asylum/refugees total (2016-2021): 112,846
On asylum application decisions:
"The share of asylum applications that received an initial decision within six months fell from 87% in Q2 2014 to 6% in Q2 2021"
© 2022 The Migration Observatory
We will leave it to the reader to decide where, infact, the overcrowding problems in refugee handling facilities and enormous backlog in asylum applications lie.
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