British Legislation on Asylum
Keywords:
right to asylum, refugee legal regime, pseudo-refugee, Geneva Convention, Law on Asylum and ImmigrationAbstract
The article considers the development of changes in UK legislation in the field of asylum in the twentieth century. The author describes the main provisions of the legal acts, which regulate the process of granting asylum in the United Kingdom. Such acts include the bill «On Asylum and Immigration Appeals», which became a law on July 1, 1993, and the «Law on Asylum and Immigration» of 1996, the main innovation of which was the cancellation of appeals against turn to the third safe country through which the asylum seeker traveled to Great Britain.Subsequently, the 1999 Act «On Immigration and Asylum» was adopted, which initiated the creation of the National Service for the Support of Political Immigrants. The study reveals the specifics of the legislative regulation of the right to asylum in the United Kingdom during 2000-2016. The first in this period was the Act of 2002 «On Citizenship and Asylum» in which new centers for housing provision, and refugee movements have been suggested. The Asylum and Immigration Act (2004) and Act of 2006 «On Immigration, Asylum and Nationality» restricted the right of refugees to apply for asylum, introduced electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricting their freedom of movement and residence choice. The key findings of the research, based on the analysis and comparison of statistical data concerning the number of applications submitted, indicate that there is a tendency towards a gradual increase in asylum seekers in this country.
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