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Where does the UK house asylum seekers?

Where does the UK house asylum seekers?

Update: 2025-08-19
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When people come to the UK seeking asylum they’re supposed to be placed in homes all over the country while their claims are processed – not hotels. Jonathan Darling, professor of human geography at Durham University, tells Adam Fleming where this policy of dispersal came from, how it’s evolved, and why it’s broken down.

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Where does the UK house asylum seekers?

Where does the UK house asylum seekers?

BBC Radio 4