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Return Migration: Policies and Practices
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1. E.g. the asylum figure for the second quarter of 2003 was less than half the figure for the fourth quarter of
2002, i.e. a reduction from 22,760 to 10,585 (Home Office, Asylum Statistics).
2. Home Office, Asylum Statistics.
3. Fourth Report from the Home Affairs Committee, Asylum Removals, April 2003.
4. Conclusions of the Fourth Report from the Home Affairs Committee, Asylum Removals, April 2003.
5. Findings, The Voluntary Assisted Returns Programme: An Evaluation, Research, Development and
Statistics Directorate, Home Office.
* UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Smuggling and Trafficking Protocols: The
United Kingdom signed the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime on 14 December
2000, but has not yet ratified the Convention. It signed the Trafficking Protocol on 14 December 2000,
but has not yet ratified the Protocol. The United Kingdom also signed the Smuggling Protocol on
14 December 2000, although it has not yet ratified this Protocol.
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