UK:Few asylum-seekers given refugee status
01 January 1991
UK:Few asylum-seekers given refugee status
artdoc May=1993
Following a Home Affairs Select Committee investigation, it has
emerged that out of 20,528 applicants only 599 were granted
asylum in the first nine months of 1992. 8,064 of the applicants
were granted exceptional leave to remain (Guardian 8.12.92).
IRR European Race Audit no 2 1992. Contact: Liz Fekete, Institute
of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS Tel: ++ 071
837 0041