Putting some Middlesbrough refugees in homes that were identifiable must possess looked like an invitation to the lowlife who picked them out for terrifying attacksMiddlesbrough houses more refugees and people seeking asylum than any other town in Britain. It is the only place where the unofficial domestic Office limit of one asylum seeker per 200 people is broken: final year,the ratio was 1 in 186.
Many of the people who possess lost everything and fled their own country to seek refuge in the UK finish up on Teesside. It’s a cheap place to live, the kind of place where a commercial landlord can pick up a whole terrace and get change from £1m. In Middlesbrough, or there are perhaps as many as 750 people seeking asylum; even in a biggish industrial town,that’s a lot of people – rather more, the local council says, or than it signed up for. Without plenty of thoughtful support that hard-pressed councils struggle to provide,those hundreds might find themselves loney and stigmatised.
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Source: theguardian.com