Try this brief quiz, below, out over the summer, and try it with your friends too. see how they do! Do it without googling the answers!
We held it at the Social Liberal Forum conference last weekend and had a prize of a Fairtrade chocolate bar – can’t deliver that on the web, sorry to say, but if you are doing it at an event, maybe you could provide similar.
The answers will be posted at the end of the summer. if you would like them before that, send an e-mail via “comments”.
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS FOR SEEKERS OF SANCTUARY
ASYLUM FACTS QUIZ
A refugee is a person who:
‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country’
XXXX Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
France
3. How many, per 10,000 people in the UK, are asylum seekers ?
41
4. What proportion of the 15 million refugees in the world come to the UK ?
8%
5. How much a year does the UK spend on detention for immigration purposes?
£75 million
was the largest recipient of new asylum claims in 2012, accounting for 8% of all individual applications in the world.
Who was second, and who was third from these countries :
UK.
The vast majority of refugees stay in their region of displacement, so that four fifths (80%) of the world’s refugees are hosted by developing countries. In 2012 Pakistan hosted the highest number of refugees at 1.7million.
countries of origin
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Syria, India, Albania, Pakistan, Eritrea, Bangladesh, Iran, Nigeria.
75% of rejected applicants lodged appeals
8. What was the success rate for appeals against decisions to allow asylum seekers to stay in the UK (ie Home Office got it wrong) in 2011
28%