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The Stormont Executive Office have published a report on their survey ‘Attitudes to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Northern Ireland 2022’
It analyses data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey, examining public attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland.
Between 2018 (the first year of the current time series) and 2022 the proportion of respondents who agreed that asylum seekers should be allowed to stay in Northern Ireland has increased significantly from 54% to 70%.
Fifty-one percent of respondents to the 2022 survey agreed that Northern Ireland is a society that welcomes refugees escaping persecution in their home country compared to just 39% in 2018.
76% of respondents in 2022 agreed that “it is our duty to provide protection to refugees who are escaping persecution in their home country" compared to 65% in 2019.
