With close to 107,000 new individual asylum claims registered in 2011 (one tenth of applications globally), South Africa was the world’s largest recipient of individual applications for the fourth successive year. Between 2006 and 2011, South Africa registered more than 816,000 new asylum applications, making it by far the top destination for asylum-seekers for this six-year period. (UNHCR Global Trends 2011)
This week’s theme: SA vs. the rest
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As though we didn’t have sufficient unemployment. And people wonder why we have a crime problem?
Fascinating. With all the grim news we get here regarding the number of hungry people (12 million people go to bed hungry every night in SA, according to 702 this morning), government corruption, crime, etc – one can’t always see the positives. But clearly there are people who do! I’d like to know the breakdown of where these people come from and who they are, levels of education, skills, ages, races, genders, etc.
Theo
“I’d like to know the breakdown of where these people come from and who they are, levels of education, skills, ages, races, genders, etc”
This would be interesting … at a guess I would say it is mostly Africa, and the question is WHY?
I assume that this process is the formalised one, as oppossed to forced movement from one sovereign state to another.