Bulgaria and Romania were granted accession earlier this year despite concerns over the transparency of their legal systems, but the biggest worry among existing members is the expected flood of
economic migrants seeking work within their borders.
Not exact matches
All are assumed to be merely
economic migrants with «frivolous» reasons for
seeking asylum.
To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European
Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on
migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not
seek another employer even if abused).
These include
migrants who immigrate or
seek to continue to reside in Canada under the humanitarian stream (mainly refugee and humanitarian & compassionate (H&C) claimants); certain sponsored family members who immigrate to Canada under the family reunification stream of immigration; and certain
migrants who enter Canada under the
economic stream of migration, in particular, those who enter as temporary foreign workers (TFW).
If a
migrant is
seeking refugee status from within Canada, the
economic, social and cultural barriers to accessing justice are likely to be substantially greater than those faced by almost any other member of Canadian society.