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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seem to be several posters on here that assert that many (or the majority?) of refugees are actually "economic migrants."  I'm curious as to how you know this?  Do some of you work for the govt or with NGOs that work directly with this crisis? Or have numbers/percentages been published in a news source that I just haven't seen?

Also, this is probably a dumb question, but how do you distinguish between a "refugee" and "economic migrant"?  Say you have two people coming for Syria- one has been driven from their house (or it's been destroyed) while the other still has somewhere to live but has lost their way of living and ability to provide for their family due to the war.  Is the former considered a refugee but the latter an economic migrant?[/quote]

A refugee is defined as one that will be persecuted or killed due to political, religious or sexual orientation reasons.  If their ability to provide for their family has been taken away, that is not a refugee, or if it is, they are called "economic refugees" and most countries don't recognize that as a reason.

One can say that the Syrian refugees are religious refugees from ISIS.  I know I would be one if ISIS were taking over my country.

Also, there are millions of refugees in Turkey and Lebanon, but their status there is terrible. So, perhaps, many men have left their wives and kids in Lebanon or Turkey while they go to Europe to find a job, then send for them later once they have more money.  This is fairly typical.

I saw a picture of a Syrian man in Lebanon, holding his sleeping 4 yr old daughter, and trying to send generic ball point pens on the streets.  He had about a half dozen or so in  his hands, desperately trying to sell them.  It was so sad.  Some people around there started a kickstarter campaign for him and his family. I don't know what happened.  I just imagine my DH holding my 6 yr old trying to sell a few pens on the street so that we could eat.  Heartbreaking.[/quote]

Yes, that photo was heart breaking, however, at last check, they raised $90K+ in crowd funding for that man.  Next photos showed him and his daughter smiling.[/quote]

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