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Spending time talking to children about migration can help build empathy for others and create more inclusive and welcoming communities for everyone.
And what better time to talk about it than #RefugeeWeek? Here are our top tips ⬇
And what better time to talk about it than #RefugeeWeek? Here are our top tips ⬇
1. Start with yourself.
Our teaching resources contain all the information you need to discuss this topic, so use that to guide you: bit.ly/UnderstandingM… ⬇
Our teaching resources contain all the information you need to discuss this topic, so use that to guide you: bit.ly/UnderstandingM… ⬇
2. Ask what they already know. Young people will have their own questions, understanding, and potential misconceptions about why people migrate and why they come to the UK.
Our Newsthink resources can help you start the conversation: bit.ly/3zP9HKg ⬇
Our Newsthink resources can help you start the conversation: bit.ly/3zP9HKg ⬇
1. So, what's *really* going on with the UK asylum system? Here's a deep dive briefing for #RefugeeWeek2022 and five key charts. 🧵
I like charts.
I like charts.
2. First, number of asylum claims. They've gone up, but only very recently and they are still way below the peak of 2002. Most arrivals are by small boat now, though.
3. Next, success rate. Asylum seekers or refugees? Both. The success rate is the highest it has been since the 1980s: 75% of all claims for asylum succeed, and that is before appeals. And it is higher for some nationalities, like Afghans, Iranians and Syrians.
I don’t know who needs to hear this (well actually, I suspect I do) but, here comes a 🧵 for #WorldRefugeeDay full of stuff I have learned as a @Care4Calais volunteer 1/
There is nothing illegal about seeking asylum in the UK - however you get here - so long as you present yourself and immediately begin your claim. To conflate asylum with illegal immigration is to demonise the desperate and to misunderstand the solutions needed. 2/
Refugees don’t risk their lives in the channel for the chance of a hotel room or because people like me give them a cheap pair of trainers. They have no idea about the systems we have in place for processing asylum or what charitable help is available at any given time. 3/
THREAD: As it is #WorldRefugeeDay and the start of #RefugeeWeek2022 let's have a little look at some of the common misconceptions, and plain lies, spread about asylum seekers coming to the UK shall we? 1/
Let's start, appropriately, with the common myth of "first safe country". Now this gets said a lot, but in reality there is no mention of first safe country in any internationally recognised legal instrument related to refugees. 2/
The closest reference you will find is in the Dublin Regs, which the UK has now left, and even then effectively first country of entry is at the bottom of a hierarchical list of criteria for determining which state should process the application. 3/
1. To start off #RefugeeWeek2022, I've answered some of the classic legal questions around refugees and the Refugee Convention.More detail in the linked blog post at the end 🧵
2. What is the Refugee Convention anyway?
3. What is the legal definition of a refugee?
