Albanian asylum-seekers are listed, as they have always been, as coming from the former Yugoslavia.
In Hungary, asylum-seekers, including children, were held and sometimes ill-treated in detention centres, despite government denials.
Asylum-seekers are not allowed to work in Britain, and opportunities for legal economic migration are slim.
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They forgot, for instance, their promise to set up a screening centre for asylum-seekers in Tehran.
Because of such difficulties, countries try harder and harder to stop asylum-seekers ever reaching their shores.
His diatribes against asylum-seekers in boats have also tied Ms Gillard in political knots.
At present, we have around 400 asylum-seekers, which in a small town like Dover is a lot.
If they are worried only about asylum-seekers (and, perhaps, illegal immigrants) it is good news for Labour.
Furthermore, the Court of Appeal has ruled that local councils can only provide for asylum-seekers in kind.
It sent asylum-seekers to languish in Australian-built camps on Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
Many are asylum-seekers, who are even less popular than Asian Muslims and provide a new focus for resentment.
The question facing the parties now is whether Britons are hostile to asylum-seekers or to immigrants in general.
Banai hopes that the Israeli government will verify who are asylum-seekers and give them viable ways to support themselves.
Even while exposing the shambles of the government's policy on asylum-seekers, he still manages to sound humane and well-intentioned.
Not surprisingly, the Tories have therefore made a determined effort to fudge the distinction between asylum-seekers and the rest.
Public anger over the past eight years has focused more on asylum-seekers than on any other kind of immigrant.
As for asylum-seekers, they will no longer be allowed to travel to Britain.
The flow of asylum-seekers depends in part on the level of instability in the more troubled areas of the world.
But conversations with Hartlepool voters suggest that some Tory attacks on New Labour for example on taxes and asylum-seekers have hit home.
He and his ministers claimed asylum-seekers on one boat had thrown their children into the sea to intimidate the authorities.
Switzerland has recently opened an office in West Africa to try to determine where its rejected African asylum-seekers come from.
And with lots of criminals and asylum-seekers, packed prisons and a tough home secretary, there is plenty more to go for.
He is proposing a further clamp-down on asylum-seekers: per person, Switzerland gets far more refugee applications than any other sizeable European country.
Keith and Margaret Dolman, both unemployed with adult children, complain that the council is ignoring local homeless people and housing asylum-seekers instead.
Some dashed to the headland, only to watch helplessly as a wooden boat carrying as many as 100 asylum-seekers smashed against rocks.
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For asylum-seekers to have made it past the Gestapo and other population-control elements at this time would have been a remarkable achievement.
However panic-stricken they are, Iraqi asylum-seekers do not simply show up anywhere.
More recently it has accepted many asylum-seekers from flashpoints around the world.
Some of the Home Office's wilder initiatives such as a proposal to deny housing to asylum-seekers unless they do community work have failed that test.
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During 1992, the worst year of the war in Bosnia, the total number of asylum-seekers in Britain from former Yugoslavia stood at 5, 635.
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