Reconsidering the Problem of 'Bogus' Refugees with 'Socio-economic Motivations' for Seeking Asylum

Bibliographic Data

ID5716652
AuthorsSusan E Zimmermann, Susan Zimmermann (0009-0008-2137-2395, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume6
Issue3
Pages335-352
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450101.2011.590034
OpenAlexW1997455497
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited32

‘Bogus’ asylum seekers are widely alleged to be ‘abusing’ the UK’s system, whilst similar perceptions exist more widely among industrialized host states. This article examines physical mobility for the purpose of claiming asylum, and whether it is meaningful to claim that the UK asylum route is being misused or abused by ‘bogus’ refugees with ‘socio-economic motivations’. It examines procedural and definitional challenges to existing framings of the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ forms of asylum mobility, and tests assumptions behind what it means to be ‘bogus’ or ‘genuine’ with reference to original empirical data. This article asks how different asylum mobilities are contested and made meaningful at the ‘gate’, presenting a challenge to such framings to reconsider the nature of what ‘problem’ exists

Criminology · Empirical research · Epistemology · Mobilities · Perception · Political science · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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