Sentence examples for wave of asylum seekers from inspiring English sources

A wave of asylum seekers joined them, many from Africa.

Just across the road from the new facility, down by the shore, is a cluster of broken-down timber shacks built in 1969 to house an earlier wave of asylum seekers delivered to Manus on the instructions of Australian authorities.

The wave of asylum seekers fleeing war in the Middle East has certainly played into the hands of Eurosceptics, who argue that quitting the EU is the only way for Britain to take back control of its borders.

Prime Minister John Howard of Australia said the seizure of the ship signaled his government's determination to crack down on a wave of asylum seekers, mostly from the Middle East.

While specific circumstances vary from country to country, extreme rightist advances appear to have all been helped by voters' anger that mainstream political parties have ignored the perceived link between rising crime and uncontrolled immigration, including a recent wave of asylum seekers.

There's not much of that today, but there are lots of people playing football, and I'm reliably informed that the weekly Saturday kickabout here has helped solve some of the problems that blew up when a wave of asylum seekers arrived in the city a decade ago.

Stopping the boats has been a politically successful outcome and the electorate seems unlikely to tolerate a return to waves of asylum seekers washing up on our shores.

Further, although extreme rightist leaders, including Mr. Le Pen, no longer propose returning third-world immigrants to their native countries, there are signs of growing public impatience with new waves of asylum seekers arriving from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Kurdistan and the Balkans.

John Howard, the most recent conservative prime minister, triumphed at the polls in 2001 by halting a previous wave of asylum-seekers.

And now  Le Parisien claims that rather than entering Europe as part of a wave of asylum-seekers earlier this year, Mohamed-Aggad was actually born and raised in Strasbourg, on the border of France and Germany.

In 2003 2004, the first wave of this study (T1) on health and healthcare utilisation of asylum seekers and permit holders in the Netherlands was conducted among 410 respondents from Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia [ 2].