Sentences with phrase «many economic migrants»

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

Britain says it will not take part in the quota system and has called for economic migrants to be pushed back to where they came from.

I stand by my argument that saturating our labor markets and swelling our already ample underclass with third - world economic migrants is exhausting our capacity to aid the vaster numbers who are left behind, let alone the needy Americans who have nowhere else to go.

All are assumed to be merely economic migrants with «frivolous» reasons for seeking asylum.

A London economic migrant myself (I first arrived here at 23 as a fresh - faced trainee - solicitor), I can not now conceive of living outside its boundaries or tiring of city centre living.

Secondly, crushing majority of the so - called «refugees» are in fact economic migrants, thus neither EU as a whole nor any Member State has any obligation to accept them.

But the events that have created the European migration crisis put this distinction between refugees and economic migrants into question.

Like many others, I framed my discussion by distinguishing between refugees and economic migrants.

Everyone else outside these two categories should be counted as an economic migrant, understood in a broad sense.

This distinction matters because in the case of economic migrants what the state is doing when it admits them is best understood in terms of mutual advantage: the migrants gains by moving, and the people of the receiving state gain by having them in their midst.

To term the «creation» of jobs out of thin air by spending tax revenues on wages (often paid to economic migrants creating new load on pubic services) an «investment» is an economic deceit.

In 2010, the Ghana Immigration Service reported that there was a large number of economic migrants and Illegal immigrants inhabiting Ghana 14.6 % (or 3.1 million) of Ghana's 2010 population (predominantly Nigerians, Burkinabe citizens, Togolese citizens, and Malian citizens).

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.

According to the Guardian, «the essays, brought together by the IPPR thinktank, also point out that Labour first devised the idea of a points - based system for economic migrants in 2000, but took until 2008 to bring it into being».

>> > Charles Clarke will unveil proposals designed to screen out unwanted economic migrants and prevent failed asylum seekers from remaining in Britain.

Britain can not exclude economic migrants from the EU and now the British economy is recovering while the eurozone economy continues to flatline, this type of immigration is increasing.

Senior Tory ministers insist the interim cap on non-EU economic migrants will cut the number of permits available this year by as little as 1,300.

Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the TGWU, said the government should adopt «sensible» policies that avoid making criminals out of law - abiding economic migrants.

It's quite possible to be a refugee and an economic migrant.

Rather, Holloway drew jeers from Labour members and was taken to task by Stephen Doughty MP for «constantly blurring the lines and definitions between refugee, migrant, economic migrant and asylum seeker».

Immigration We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

And she added: «People don't know or understand the difference between a migrant, an economic migrant and an asylum seeker, they all merge into one.

In April we introduced a limit on the number of economic migrants able to come to the UK from outside the European Economic Area.

He ruled out introducing a work permit scheme, but announced that economic migrants from those countries would be required to register with the immigration authorities.

We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

In the long term we should up - skill British workers so that we do not need as many economic migrants to fill jobs.

Ukip's Health spokesman says any visitors or economic migrants should have to prove they have health insurance before entering the UK.

A limit on economic migrants from outside the EU, changes to the rules on family and student visas and a crackdown on bogus colleges have helped bring down net migration by nearly a third from its peak.

Prof Peres added: «Given the enormous supply of cheap unoccupied land, Brazilian Amazonia continues to attract a large contingent of economic migrants from more populated regions.

«Evidence of Ice Age «economic migrants» in Europe to be unearthed.»

«They were re-colonising lands that had been lost for circa 10,000 years — economic migrants in a period of rapid global climate change, if you like.

(17) Consequently, refugees, asylum - seekers, and economic migrants have been main target of xenophobic attacks because they are portrayed as «a threat to South African lives.»

From this understanding, the South Africa must also protect its resources from unwanted economic migrants (including refugees and asylum - seekers) who are in the country to use up its resources.

The ANC Policy Discussion Document of 2012 explains the motives behind curbing economic migrants, refugees and asylum - seekers.

Under European Union immigration management policies, both refugees and asylum - seekers are defined as «unwanted economic migrants.»

In addition to national policies, South Africans» anti-foreigner or xenophobic attitudes challenge the Government of South Africa to defend refugees», asylum - seekers, and economic migrants» rights to access South Africa resources.3

So are they bogus refugees, economic migrants or illegal foreigners?»

(n42 above) p23 states that there are policy shifts in the immigration and refugee policies towards restricting economic migrants and refugees from entering South Africa and from accessing socioeconomic rights.

Generally, exclusion of refugees is grounded in the hyped fears of employers and service providers that the Immigration Act of 2002 could impose penalties on them if they do not comply with its rules.15 This misconception is further reinforced by political statements, which hold that the majority of refugees are bogus or economic migrants who are in South Africa in a search of a better life.16 There is apparently an inability to distinguish between applicability of the immigration regime and refugee regime.17 However, it is true that the Refugees Act of 1998 strictly exempts refugees and asylum - seekers from the immigration restrictive measures imposed on non-citizens in certain circumstances.

Refugees generally are more impoverished with lower earnings than economic migrants, and have lower levels of education and language skills when they arrive.

I'm actually Polish — I have a dual citizenship with Poland and the U.S. — so some might call me an economic migrant.

So it was interesting talking to working class people in the U.K. and hearing concerns like, «We don't want these economic migrants coming from Eastern Europe and taking our jobs.»

The city into which Van Dyck arrived was a real melting pot, with an expanding population of religious and economic migrants.

Its title corresponds to the geographic distance between Pakistan and Greece, the two locations that constitute the start and end point (even if temporal) of the networks that smuggle economic migrants from the subcontinent into Europe.

All scholarship on the relationship between climate migration and unrest (including Kelley et al's paper) makes clear that there is always a complex of factors, which begs the question: can international law make decisions on conferring migrant or refugee status if someone is, say, a 30 % climate migrant, a 20 % economic migrant, and a 50 % war refugee?

More importantly, these definitions are to be differentiated from that of an economic migrant whose mobilisation is voluntary and primarily motivated by improved material circumstances as opposed to human rights and safety (Morrow, 1994).

Not exact matches

«In the short term, it should add to economic growth (and) in the longer term, the fact that migrants are mainly young increases the working age population and addresses worrying demographics and pension dynamics in the euro area.»

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

About 7 % of the UK's workforce is made up of European Economic Area (EEA) migrants, a sharp rise from 2 % in 2004.

It is hard to imagine that other provinces will be able to step forward to «replace» Alberta, in a quantitative sense, as a desired destination for working - age interprovincial migrants looking for better economic opportunities.»