Asylum seekers from South Asia

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Asylum seekers from South Asia

‘13k Indians applied for asylum in the last 2 years’

Kounteya Sinha TNN

The Times of India

London: Nearly 13,000 Indians applied for asylum in 44 industrialized countries in the last two years, figuring among the top asylum seekers in countries like Australia, Cyprus, Lithuania and Japan.

The United Nations Refugee Agency’s latest Asylum Trends 2013 report said 6,12,700 people applied for asylum in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Pacific last year —the highest total for any year since 2001.

According to the latest data, 6998 Indians applied for asylum in 2012 — the number dipping by 16% to 5872 in 2013. India was ranked 18th among asylum applications in 2012, it dropped to 26th the following year. Europe was the top destination for Indian asylumseekers —6300 applications in 2012 and 2013.

As many as 1393 Indians wanted asylum in Canada and US while 1162 wanted Australia and New Zealand. Around 165 applied for asylum in South Korea.

In comparison the number of Pakistani asylum-seekers increased from 23,640 to 26310 between 2012 and 2013. Bangladesh too saw a 47% increase in asylum-seekers – 6583 in 2012 to 9659 in 2013.