Indians Among Top Asylum Seekers in OECD Countries
India is among the the top 5 sources of migrants seeking asylum in OECD countries, according to OECD's International Migration Outlook 2017 . The other four are: China, Syria, Romania and Poland. Is increasing religious violence in India , like Syria, contributing to growing numbers of asylum seekers from the South Asian nation? UP CM Yogi Adiyanath with Indian PM Modi Indian asylum seekers rank 2nd in New Zealand, 4th in Latvia and 6th in Finland and United Kingdom and 8th in Australia, the OECD report says. The numbers of Pakistanis seeking asylum remains stable but they still show up among the top 3 asylum seekers in some OECD nations such as the UK, Ireland, Italy, Greece and South Korea. Indians have sought political asylum in more than 40 countries over the years, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). There's a long history of India's religious and ethnic minorities seeking asylum abroad after being pe...