Hannah Moore
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384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
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Kate says there was some evidence that a few years ago this may have been true.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, South Africa got more than 200,000 applications in 2009, making it the largest receiver of asylum seekers in the world.
But by 2012, the most recent year we have data for, the numbers had fallen to around 60,000, meaning they had fallen to third place behind the US and Germany.
But the figures are really unreliable in South Africa.
Even if we take the most recent year of data, 2012, there seem to be a lot of estimates being given by the UN and by government ministers that contradict each other, ranging between 60,000 to 85,000 applications.
It does look like there's been a decrease from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands.
Kate thinks one reason could be that new arrivals are being given a different status rather than being treated as asylum cases.
For instance, there was a new permit introduced for all Zimbabweans in the country, which leads us on to... Number two, there are up to three million people from Zimbabwe in South Africa.
Zimbabwe has suffered from political and economic instability for a number of years and it shares a border with South Africa.
Working out if there really are more than three million Zimbabweans in South Africa has proved difficult.
But according to the World Bank, the total number of people born abroad is around 1.8 million people.
So the proportion of people from Zimbabwe must be less than that.
Number three, immigrants are stealing our jobs.
Kate explained that until recently, this has been a really hard one to explore because the figures were just not available.
But some researchers from the Migrating for Work Research Consortium have just published figures which seem at odds with people's perceptions.
So whereas people on the street might feel that one in five people working are international migrants, it's actually closer to one in 20, according to this research.
This week, we received a request for help from the editor of the Inquiry on the World Service.
Here's Richard Knight, formerly of the More or Less fold.
Well, the inquiry team could have worked it out for themselves, but I decided to take on the challenge.
I made a call to UNICEF and they reckoned that the lives of almost 600,000 children have been saved in those 15 years.
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