Figure 22: Removals and voluntary departures from the UK disaggregated to separate
refugees from overall totals (2004-2010)
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Total
Stateless Persons
113
90
63
122
72
96
46
602
Refugees
621
456
458
418
364
379
279
2,975
Number of cases of enforced removal or
voluntary departures
700
600
500
400
Stateless
Persons
300
Refugees
200
100
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Source: Data obtained from the UK Border Agency publications team (via email on 4 October
2011) as an unpublished subset of published Immigration Statistics derived from ‘Removals
and voluntary departures data tables Immigration Statistics April - June 2011.
Figure 23 below shows that 95% of cases (a count of 571) identified as non-refugee “stateless”
persons are in fact non-asylum cases with 93% (a count of 530) of these cases being refused
entry at port and subsequently removed. The asylum cases comprise only 31 cases. This
demonstrates that there are very low numbers of removals of stateless persons who claim
asylum, supporting the hypothesis that there is a population of stateless persons who claim
asylum but who cannot be removed, even if their claims fail. It is reasonable to infer that they
are not removed because they do not have the right of entry or residence in another State.
Figure 23: Removals and voluntary departures of “stateless persons” by type of case (20042010)
Total removals and voluntary departures of “stateless��� persons excluding refugees
602
Total asylum cases
31
Asylum cases: Enforced removals and notified voluntary departures
26
Asylum cases: Assisted Voluntary Returns
5
Total non-asylum cases
571
Non-asylum cases: Enforced removals and notified voluntary departures
41
Non-asylum cases: Refused entry at port and subsequently removed
530
Source: Data obtained from the UK Border Agency publications team (via email on 4 October
2011) as an unpublished subset of published Immigration Statistics derived from “Removals
and voluntary departures data tables Immigration Statistics April - June 2011”.
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