Fact checks, commentary and analysis about immigration, asylum and migration
Europe
The Mail claims that 1 in 5 asylum seekers have been Syrian. The Guardian says there is evidence that's changing as the situation develops. Both are right. Read
Immigration
Readers have asked us whether it's true that most refugees are male. Of those applying for asylum in the EU recently, more than half have been men aged over 18. Read
Immigration
Germany will end up accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees, both from Syria and the wider world, but 800,000 Syrians accepted to date is way off. Read
Europe
The EU can't force Britain to take a "quota" of refugees from other EU countries. The UK can choose to opt in to any such EU plan. Read
Immigration
A number of outlets are claiming that the UK has taken in so few Syrian refugees that you could fit them all on a tube train. This is wrong. Read
Immigration
The number of foreign-born people in the UK has probably passed eight million, but that's not the same as the number of non-UK nationals. Just ask Boris. Read
Immigration
A blackboard showing 'some immigration facts' has some basis in fact but either misunderstands the facts available, or gives a selective viewpoint on them. Read
Europe
Comparisons are tricky, but it seems that the UK gives asylum seekers less cash support than many other European countries, adjusted for living costs. Read
Europe
Media explanations about the rate of cash support for asylum seekers in France and the UK are comparing the wrong things - understandably, as it's complex. Read
Immigration
Figures given by Channel 4 News on asylum seekers are correct: in the first three months of 2015, six EU countries received more applications than Britain. Read
