GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 383,000 asylum seekers lodged applications to stay in the West in 2008, a 12 percent rise on a year ago as more Somalis and Afghans fled fighting in their homelands, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Iraqi and other refugees are seeking permanent shelter in a wider variety of industrialised countries, possibly as traditional countries of asylum including Sweden have adopted stricter policies, it said.
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