The Migrant Myth Busters leaflet is a resource designed to challenge misinformation and promote understanding about migration by the North East Migration Partnership, in collaboration with the offices of the Police and Crime Commissioners for Cleveland, Durham, and Northumbria.
The Migrant Myth Busters leaflet directly addresses common myths about asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants, providing clear, evidence-based facts on issues ranging from welfare, employment, crime, and housing. It also includes up-to-date UK and regional statistics to help communities better understand the realities of migration.
The leaflet also addresses legal barriers faced by asylum seekers, such as being unable to work while awaiting decisions, and clarifies that migrants are less likely to access social housing than those born in the UK.
Click the link below to read and share the leaflet.
Myth Busting Migration Leaflet (application, 546kB)
Sources
Find below a list of sources used to collect the data within the leaflet:
- Home Office Data on Immigration Groups
- Statista – Ranking the largest refugee-hosting countries
- Refugee Council – The truth about Asylum
- UNCHR – Asylum in the UK
- UNCHR – Global Trends: Forced Displacement
- IRC – Facts about asylum seeking in the UK
- IRC – myths about asylum debunked
- HIAS+JCORE – Asylum myths debunked
- Migration Observatory – Migrants and housing
- Migration Observatory – Labour market and immigration
- UK Parliament – Skills and labour shortages debate
- UK Parliament – Immigration: Skill shortages inquiry
- Trade and Business – Why the UK needs immigration
- University of Kent – Immigration and crime drop
- The Conversation – What Britons get wrong about immigration
- OBR – Impact of migration on fiscal forecast
- ONS – 2021 Census
For more information head to:
Myth Buster Resources – North East Migration Partnership | North East Migration Partnership