The truth about asylum
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Looking for the facts about asylum? The same old myths and scare stories about refugees and people seeking asylum are peddled again and again. You can rely on the facts and figures below to get the true picture -and help spread the truth about asylum.
1. People seeking asylum and refugees – who’s who?
Refugee
The definition of a refugee according to The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 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 or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.’
In the UK, a person becomes a refugee when government agrees that an...
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