Institutional Racism and Refugee Policies of the West: The Numbers Do Not Lie
Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences
Year: 2022

This article demonstrates that the Universal Human Right to asylum is not uniformly guaranteed to all asylum seekers pursuing refuge in Western countries. Specifically, many Western countries accept fewer asylum seekers than might be expected based on their population size. Moreover, there are a number of Western countries that demonstrate a clear bias against asylum seekers originating from Africa and the Middle East; people who are attempting to escape extremely dire circumstances. To arrive a