Asylum (politics)

Asylum was the protection given to individuals, governments or species by another body. In 2009, Jack Harkness said Torchwood needed an asylum policy for benign aliens that came through the Cardiff Rift. (AUDIO: Asylum)

Also in 2009, the British government attempted to use children of failed asylum seekers to appease the 456. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)

The day after Maxie Masters joined the Preternatural Research Bureau, in the 2010s, the first case she helped with involved a group of aliens who sought to blackmail the British Secret Service into granting them asylum on Earth. (AUDIO: Maxie)