Chapter 3 United Kingdom. Hilary and Jim Parle host a 72-year-old Eritrean asylum-seekers named Yonasskindis*, who was on the verge of being homeless after his original asylum request was rejected by the authorities. He is grateful to have their support while awaiting a decision on his appeal. “They are like my brother and sister,” Yonasskindis says of Hilary and Jim. *Names have been changed to protect the individuals © U N H C R /A ubr e y Wad e naturalization, countries may not distinguish between the naturalization of refugees and that of non-refugees. Thus, many gaps and challenges continue to exist in measuring local integration by the number of naturalized refugees, and the reported number of naturalized refugees in a given period is not a true reflection of local integration. During 2017, 28 countries reported at least one naturalized refugee. The total number of newly naturalized refugees stood at 73,400, a considerable increase on the 23,000 reported in 2016 and 32,000 in 2015. The main reason for this rise was that Turkey unhcr > Global trends 2016 reported naturalizing 50,000 Syrian refugees in 2017 as opposed to none reported previously, accounting for more than two-thirds of naturalizations (68 per cent). Canada has continued a trend of declining naturalizations, with 10,500 in 2017 compared with 16,300 in 2016 and 25,900 in 2015. Other countries that reported large numbers of naturalized refugees included the Netherlands (6,600), France (3,800), and Belgium (1,900). ■ 31