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The Importance of Accommodation in the UK
Halima and her family are among the 37 000 asylum seekers and refugees living in 200 hotels around the UK many for extended periods of time. Stuart Gordon is an expert on humanitarian issues at LSE's Department of International Development he's a former left-hand colonel in the UK armed forces. The idea of asylum has an incredibly long antecedent the ancient Greeks in the ancient Egyptians had the idea that you were inviting divine retribution if you attacked somebody who sought sanctuary in a holy place. But critics of the government say the UK is failing to meet its obligations last year the government introduced new legislation the Nationality and Borders Act which radically changed the asylum process.
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