Asylum is a very specific thing. It's about safety. The motivation to seek asylum is fear for your safety by definition. You can't seek asylum because there is no work at home for example.Hammer1966 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:24 pm It depends on what it was that made your life **** in the first place. The mixing of migrant, economic migrant, asylum seeker and the non-existent 'illegal asylum seeker' much favoured by the right into a giant dingy tend to make discussions about this topic like platting fog. I'd wager the majority of people coming across in boats have been people for whom the motivation has been to escape an unbelievably horrific life and to look for something better. My point (you can argue it was clumsily made) was that this motivation is a huge driver and can push you to do things you didn't think were possible and the worse your starting point the harder you'll try and the more desperate your position becomes (hence the exploitation).That's why I think a lot of people get in boats that have the potential to kill them.
Migrants and economic migrants on dinghy's are irrelevant in this conversation really as they are looking to enter illegally.i fully accept their motivation would be different but they are trying to bypass the systems that are in place to come and work here.
So back to the bit I struggle with, if your motivation is safety, you live in fear at home, you risk death to get out, you manage not to drown crossing the med or freeze to death in a lorry to arrive in a safe country - why get on a dinghy in France? It's just counter intuitive to me. I fully understand there are any number of reasons people would prefer to end up here and there should be a better international system in place.