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Refugees: People fleeing conflict or persecution

Migrants: People moving to another place or country

Asylum-seekers: People seeking international protection

Immigrants: People who move into one country from another country

Stateless people: People who don't have a nationality of any country

The UK is not overrun with refugees - 0.4% of the population are refugees or asylum-seekers
The vast majority of refugees flee to a neighbouring country, where they live in camps - out of 6.7m Syrian refugees globally, 4.6m live in neighbours Turkey and Lebanon
People who want to come to the UK usually do so because they already speak English or have family here
Life for asylum-seekers waiting for a decision in the UK is hard - they are not allowed to work and are dependent on government support

According to UNHCR statistics, as of November 2022 there were 231,597 refugees, 127,421 pending asylum cases and 5,483  stateless persons  in the UK including recent Ukrainians refugees.
People awaiting an asylum decision receive just £5.84 on which to survive
The vast majority of refugees globally – four out of every five – stay in their region of displacement, and consequently are hosted by developing countries. Turkey now hosts the highest number of refugees with 3.7 million, followed by Colombia with 1.7 million.
Worldwide, roughly 85%  of all refugees live in developing regions , not in wealthy industrialised countries, and 73% of refugees displaced abroad live in countries neighbouring their countries of origin.
In the year ending September 2021, Germany received the highest number of asylum applicants (127,730) in the EU+, followed by France (96,510)