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> resettling more refugees than any other country in the world > Since 2017, approximately 150,000 asylum seekers have claimed protection This is pretty low

> resettling more refugees than any other country in the world > Since 2017, approximately 150,000 asylum seekers have claimed protection This is pretty low number. Many countries took millions of refugees.

wisdomdata 7y ago
australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.
- sorenstoutner 7y ago
  The numbers from this website show much lower (not more than 20,000 in any given year since 1982). Where are you getting your data? https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/australian-immigration-humanitarian-intake/ https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/australian-immigration-hum... Note that there is a distinction between refugees (the third column) and total immigration (the second column). Even total immigration never tops 200,000 per year.
- petre 7y ago
  Too bad they ship refugees off to Nauru and Papua New Guinea where they live in "processing centres". https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-45327058 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...
  - shard972 7y ago
    How about Canada steps up to Australia's magnitude of generosity before telling them how they should manage said generosity.
  - pinkfoot 7y ago
    Too bad the refugees didn't apply for asylum in any number of stable countries they passed through first.
tempestn 7y ago
> Canada took in 28,100 of 92,400 refugees who were resettled in 25 countries last year https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refugees-un-1.5182621 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refug... Do you have a source for many countries taking in millions?
- necro 7y ago
  I think this article is cherry picking here trying to make Canada look good compared to say the USA and other countries. ( im canadain btw ) I think it's easy to take in 28K refuges when the illegal load is very small in Canada, of something like 20K per year [1] Compare that to the USA that needs to deal with an illegal load of 20X that. [2] And for 2019 the USA load seems to be twice that of 2018. [3] 1. https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-crosser-statistics.aspx https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-... ( and this is just the sw border, not accounting for flights ) 2. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-2018 https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-20... 3. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
- smnrchrds 7y ago
  I am not the OP. When I read that sentence, I thought it meant total refugees settled, not just new 2018 refugee numbers. I would be very surprised if Canada is near the top in total resident refugees. A small country like Lebanon (population of less than 6 million, total area smaller than New York metropolitan area) has 1.5–2 million refugees residing in the country. By some estimates, more than a quarter of the population of Lebanon are refugees. No matter what indicator you choose (total, per capita, per square km, per $ GDP, ...), Lebanon would be far ahead in the number of refugees accepted.
  - tempestn 7y ago
    Agreed; I'm sure there are many countries with far more total refugees. The annual trends do seem newsworthy to me though. If anything it illustrates how much the US annual number has dropped that it's now below Canada. Likewise European countries that were taking much larger numbers of refugees per year are no longer taking as many. Canada has increased its intake slightly under the Liberal government, as the article mentions, but the real change is the reduction by other countries.
luckylion 7y ago
I believe resettling is important here. Canada has little to none asylum seekers that cross the border and request asylum. Canada resettles asylum seekers that have been referred by organizations like the UN, were vetted and selected along a handful criteria (like wealth, education, language skills etc).
masonic 7y ago
"Claimed protection" != "given permanent residency". For example, although Sweden got praised for accepting lots of refugee applicants, more than half got repatriated in less than a year.

wisdomdata 7y ago

australia's yearly intake until recently for around a decade has been more than that.

sorenstoutner 7y ago
The numbers from this website show much lower (not more than 20,000 in any given year since 1982). Where are you getting your data? https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/australian-immigration-humanitarian-intake/ https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/australian-immigration-hum... Note that there is a distinction between refugees (the third column) and total immigration (the second column). Even total immigration never tops 200,000 per year.
petre 7y ago
Too bad they ship refugees off to Nauru and Papua New Guinea where they live in "processing centres". https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-45327058 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...
- shard972 7y ago
  How about Canada steps up to Australia's magnitude of generosity before telling them how they should manage said generosity.
- pinkfoot 7y ago
  Too bad the refugees didn't apply for asylum in any number of stable countries they passed through first.

tempestn 7y ago

> Canada took in 28,100 of 92,400 refugees who were resettled in 25 countries last year https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refugees-un-1.5182621 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refug... Do you have a source for many countries taking in millions?

necro 7y ago
I think this article is cherry picking here trying to make Canada look good compared to say the USA and other countries. ( im canadain btw ) I think it's easy to take in 28K refuges when the illegal load is very small in Canada, of something like 20K per year [1] Compare that to the USA that needs to deal with an illegal load of 20X that. [2] And for 2019 the USA load seems to be twice that of 2018. [3] 1. https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-crosser-statistics.aspx https://irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-border-... ( and this is just the sw border, not accounting for flights ) 2. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-2018 https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration/fy-20... 3. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
smnrchrds 7y ago
I am not the OP. When I read that sentence, I thought it meant total refugees settled, not just new 2018 refugee numbers. I would be very surprised if Canada is near the top in total resident refugees. A small country like Lebanon (population of less than 6 million, total area smaller than New York metropolitan area) has 1.5–2 million refugees residing in the country. By some estimates, more than a quarter of the population of Lebanon are refugees. No matter what indicator you choose (total, per capita, per square km, per $ GDP, ...), Lebanon would be far ahead in the number of refugees accepted.
- tempestn 7y ago
  Agreed; I'm sure there are many countries with far more total refugees. The annual trends do seem newsworthy to me though. If anything it illustrates how much the US annual number has dropped that it's now below Canada. Likewise European countries that were taking much larger numbers of refugees per year are no longer taking as many. Canada has increased its intake slightly under the Liberal government, as the article mentions, but the real change is the reduction by other countries.

luckylion 7y ago

I believe resettling is important here. Canada has little to none asylum seekers that cross the border and request asylum. Canada resettles asylum seekers that have been referred by organizations like the UN, were vetted and selected along a handful criteria (like wealth, education, language skills etc).

masonic 7y ago

"Claimed protection" != "given permanent residency". For example, although Sweden got praised for accepting lots of refugee applicants, more than half got repatriated in less than a year.