US top asylum-seekers' destination last year: OECD report
US immigration policy
In Europe, OECD said the government should find jobs for young refugees or face anti-immigrant sentiment when they fail to integrate into society.
Amid outcry over Trump administration's immigration policy, a report by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) said the US was top asylum-seekers' destination last year.
The OECD report said the US overtook Germany which received 26 per cent more requests with Germany receiving a 73 per cent dip in asylum requests. There were 330,000 asylum requests made to the US in 2017, the report added.
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"The refugee crisis has heightened concerns in the public opinion about the potential benefits of migration," the OECD's labour director Stefano Scarpetta said, adding that countries should address concerns on migration and seek to protect refugees.
In Europe, OECD said the government should find jobs for young refugees or face anti-immigrant sentiment when they fail to integrate into society.
Young men with little education make up a disproportionate number of the roughly four million people who have claimed asylum in Europe since 2014, the report said.
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"Young, low-educated men are overrepresented among refugees," the report said.
The report added that unemployment in Germany could rise by half a percentage point to six per cent by 2020.
"Since this population group is already vulnerable in most host countries, well-targeted measures are needed to provide them with adequate support," the Paris-based organization added.
Amid the uproar over immigration, President Trump said his administration would be following a "zero tolerance" policy on refugees, across the Atlantic in Italy newly installed interior minister Matteo Salvini said Italy will no longer be "Europe's refugee camp" even as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe needs a new approach on immigration.
The report called for "policy support for low-educated men in general" in jobs and "effective integration measures specifically for recently arrived refugees".