Canada’s refugee acceptance rate up despite asylum restrictions | Toronto Star
2015/03/03 Leave a comment
Some of the initial comparative data on the impact of refugee reforms of 2012:
Canada received 20,223 refugee claims in 2012 but the number dropped to 10,356 in 2013 after the asylum reforms. The number of claims climbed last year to 13,652.
The main refugee source countries have remained steady, led by China and Pakistan, with Hungary, Colombia, Syria, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti next; their overall acceptance rate was at 67 per cent in 2014.
The Conservative government introduced the changes to the refugee system in 2012 to crack down on bogus refugee claims from democratic countries and reduce the then growing backlogs by expediting the process.
Processing of new asylum claims is down to three months from more than 20 months under the old system, with the backlog reduced by two-thirds to 9,877 claims — one-fifth of them in the system for more than three years — from the peak of 30,750 in 2012.
“I’m heartened that under the new system, Canada is still granting refugee protection to a significant number of claimants,” said Osgoode Hall Law School professor Sean Rehaag. “The overall figures challenge the government’s assertion that Canada is having its generosity abused by fraudulent claimants.”
Canada’s refugee acceptance rate up despite asylum restrictions | Toronto Star.
The attached table provides the details:
|
2014 |
2013 |
|
| China |
42% |
34% |
| Pakistan |
78% |
72% |
| Hungary |
35% |
20% |
| Colombia |
52% |
38% |
| Syria |
93% |
90% |
| Nigeria |
53% |
35% |
| India |
18% |
15% |
| Korea (North) |
0% |
0% |
| Afghanistan |
77% |
71% |
| Haiti |
41% |
40% |
| Congo |
43% |
49% |
| Iraq |
82% |
63% |
| Sri Lanka |
58% |
51% |
| Croatia |
11% |
11% |
| Slovakia |
52% |
8% |
| Ukraine |
59% |
41% |
| Bangladesh |
64% |
39% |
| Iran |
71% |
75% |
| Egypt |
86% |
89% |
| Somalia |
54% |
59% |
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