An 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

An 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.