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Please note: this website was created in 2003 and there have been several changes in relevant Australian legislation since that time (probably Canadian too). The website is kept online as an overview of the situation at that time but has not and will not be updated. | |
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Australia received 13,000 claims for asylum between July 2000 and June 2001, 4,490 of these claims were by detained asylum seekers. Canada on the other hand received 44,500 asylum applications for the same period. The following chart shows the number of asylum seekers applying for asylum in Australia and Canada from 1992 -2001.
This section of the tour provides an overview of asylum seekers seeking refugee protection in Australia, where they come from and how they get here. go to the Australian Statistics section >> This section of the tour provides an overview of asylum seekers seeking refugee protection in Canada and looks at where they come from and approval rates. |
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