Asylum seekers in Britain: putting the economic ‘pull factor’ in context
Economic pull factors have been a particular focus of attention, as the assumption that many asylum seekers are not real refugees but are instead economic migrants has become mainstream. This idea is underpinned by the assumption that asylum seekers are rational economic actors who are able to execute their migration plans relatively straightforwardly unless national governments step in with policy interventions to both physically stop them moving, but also importantly to disincentivise migration. As the numbers of asylum applications from non-Europeans increased at the end of the twentieth century, these sorts of assumptions around asylum seekers not being ‘genuine’ or as deserving as those in the past, have become ever more popular.
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