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Spain: Decline in asylum requests

01 January 1997

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The more rigorous requirements imposed on applications for political asylum, with the entry into effect of the Asylum Law brought in by the then Socialist government, reduced the number of asylum requests by 52.6 per cent in 1995. The total fell from 12,615 in 1993, to only 5,678 in 1995. The highest proportion of applicants (2,066, or 36.5%) came from European countries, followed by Africa (1,640, 29%), Asia (1,028, 18%) and the Americas (923, 16%). The majority of European applicants (1,251, or 22% of the overall total) came from Romania, followed by Turkey (152, 2.7%), Bosnia-Hercegovina (128, 2.3%), Armenia (112, 2%) and Russia (91, 1.6%).

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