WALES: Young asylum seekers abused

Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 11:00

A February study carried out by researchers from Glamorgan and Cardiff universities has concluded that a third of child asylum seekers in Wales experience racial abuse. Released by charity Save the Children on February 24, the researchers' report also noted that all the 45 children they spoke to were anxious about the future. Most of those abused blamed the media for fuelling negative perceptions of asylum seekers. One 12-year-old told the researchers: "They have called me Paki, and they say that I am related to Osama bin Laden".

From Green Left Weekly, March 9, 2005.

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