Many people in Northern Ireland have never met a refugee or person who is seeking asylum here but they may have been given misleading impressions by what they have read in newspapers and they do not know where to get answers to basic questions. The information included here is designed

There are an unprecedented number of refugees in the world today. The decade last decade saw forced displacement and human suffering on an increasingly terrifying scale. In June 2019 the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that 70.8 million people had been forced from their homes of whom 41.3 million were

The civil war began in Syria in 2011 and by mid 2018 it was estimated that there were 6.7 million refugees from Syria, most taking refuge in neighbouring countries. By 2013 the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) began to ask countries to resettle vulnerable refugees. The UK Government agreed in 2015

The Refugee Council say that the UK hosts around 1% of the world’s refugees. In 1918 there 37,453 people applied for asylum in the UK (6% of total applications in the European Union). At 30 June 2019 only 0.04% of the UK’s asylum applicants were living in N Ireland. It

Many people who are forced to flee are in the hands of the people who arrange their escape. Over two thirds of people interviewed for a Refugee Council research study said that they did not choose to come to the UK. Most only discovered where they were going after leaving