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Did you choose the country to which to run - then you are more of economic migrant, not asylum seeker.
by venomsnake 11y ago
Did you choose the country to which to run - then you are more of economic migrant, not asylum seeker.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoSay your house is on fire, it burns down, and your house will remain on fire for half a decade (e.g. Syrian civil war is past 4.5 years old with no end in sight), and you have a list of different shelters to go to where you'll need to spend years, raise your kids, build a new livelihood because yours is destroyed. What do you do? You just go to any random one? Or to the best one that is within reach? The answer is obvious, and it doesn't make you an economic migrant.
- blowski 11y agoAn asylum seeker is simply somebody who as applied for asylum in another country, but not yet been accepted. They may do so because they are persecuted in their home country, but the definition of persecuted is (necessarily) very loose. There is no definition of an 'economic migrant', and there is no easy way of categorising the people involved.