Distinguishing between economic migrants and asylum seekers is a challenging and time-consuming task for the agency. In 2014, out of 25,870 applications for asylum in 2014, 15,820, or 61.2% were ...

Refugees and economic migrants are commonly mistaken to be the same people moving from country to country. In one minute, learn why we need to understand the unique plight of refugees and what some of ...

A less pronounced increase in non-displaced, international migrants occurred in Israel. There, the total number of international migrants increased by 79,000 between 2005 and 2015. Some people moved ...

Don’t know economic migrants from asylum seekers? CNN explains the differences that often get lost in the debate over Europe’s crisis.

The distinction between "genuine" refugees and economic migrants is taking center stage as countries grow weary of playing the good Samaritan.

On the surface, the distinction between a refugee and an economic migrant makes sense. For the former, the contractual bond with the country of birth has been irreparably broken.

It's 'the difference between push and pull.'Migrants vs. refugees, in economic terms It's 'the difference between push and pull.' ...

Immigrants have often delivered economic benefits to the countries taking them in, but they have also upended the politics of the industrialized world — where the native-born often exaggerate ...

Refugees are also entitled to asylum under EU law -- a right not ascribed to migrants. What is the difference between refugees and migrants?

Using representative national surveys, this paper compares economic outcomes among Latin American migrants to Spain and the United States in the first cross-national comparison using quantitative data ...

Indian and Chinese people working abroad sent more money home than migrants from any other country this year, but their remittance patterns are radically different.