The total number of asylum claims hit 111,000 in the year ending in June 2025 - higher than the previous peak of 103,000 in 2002.

Surge in claims appears to reflect Americans’ growing concerns that the Trump administration’s policies threaten their safety ...

Extra help and support is planned for the almost 1,000 asylum seekers staying in three hotels in Bristol. This includes more ...

Ministers are in talks with councils to take over the £5bn government contracts to house asylum seekers and end the use of ...

The pernicious and insidious currents of racism and hatred underlying these protests are glaring evidence of a failing system ...

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage promised to end the “invasion” of asylum-seekers with mass deportations and remigration ...

If they spent even a few hours in the company of people like Said or Hadnan, I know their opinions would change.

Asylum seekers say they are "living in fear" following the migrant hotel protests, including the demonstration at a Holiday ...

“Asylum seekers are people who arrive at the border seeking refugee status, refugee status is defined by the 1951 Convention on Refugees,” said Joel Westra, a political science professor at ...

Since 2015, hundreds of thousands of people have come to Germany seeking refuge. The data on asylum, integration and ...

In 2015, Germany was faced with a mass influx of about 890,000 asylum seekers. It too used the 1951 Refugee Convention definition as its primary criterion for protection. But by broadening the ...

CORNISH: Now this 1980 law, the Refugee Act of 1980, says that people can seek asylum if they face the threat of persecution in their home countries or if there is, quote, "a well-founded fear of ...