2006-11-23 06:01:41 · 6 answers · asked by PinkPoss 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The asylum seeker asks for safety in a new location. The refugee is simply leaving danger and winds up who knows where in whatever circumstances.
Peace!
2006-11-23 06:07:06 · answer #1 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Refugees can be asylum seekers. Refugees often just leave a danger, asylum seeker have a direct destination (or aim to go somewhere).
In both case, there is a threat. The major difference is often way states classified them. For example, some countries define asylum seekers to be individuals who are trying to escape a personal political persecution. However, the main normative difference between both could be see as the difference with people with a citizenship trying to escape a situation (refugees) versus people expelled from their home state thus without any citizenship (asylum). If a state refused the claims of asylum seekers, they become non-citizens of the world, without any places to call home.
Refugees and asylum seekers are always immigrants. Anybody going to a different place to live is an immigrant.
Do I make sens ?
2006-11-23 14:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by mireille 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asylum seekers lives are under threat do to their actions, refugees are forced out due to problems beyond their control. THink droughts, wars and Genocides.
2006-11-23 14:10:33 · answer #3 · answered by da_7thassasin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answers already listed pretty much sums it up , as a refugee usually has been displaced by war or other disasters, while one seeking asylum, contends he or she will be punished unjustly because of their beliefs or race etc, some use this excuse when there is no danger except they want to come to America and live on welfare the good life ,
2006-11-23 14:14:08 · answer #4 · answered by jim ex marine offi, 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, people seeking asylum are asking for sanctuary because there is great danger for them in their homeland and they will be murdred or jailed if they stay there.
A refugee is a person who leaves a country and goes to another country.
2006-11-23 14:04:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so they flee to another countryPeople seeking asylum are those that are being persecuted by their own government because of race, religion, or political beliefs.
People that are refugees are those that flee their country for personal reasons.
2006-11-23 14:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by Axel M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋