economic migrant
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris expressed concerns of an uptick in economic migrant arrivals amid growing economic hardship abroad and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2022
Some argue that enshrining new international agreements, or scrapping the old ones altogether, might more sustainably distribute global responsibility, particularly as a rise in climate refugees scrambles the boundaries between economic migrant and political refugee.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2022
Despite having a devoted pro-bono lawyer, he lost his asylum case and appeal, on the grounds of credibility – the judge believed he was an economic migrant who had invented the threats.
From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018
The three are an ex-convict Londoner, an Eritrean refugee and a Nigerian economic migrant.
From Nature • Jul. 17, 2018
An economic migrant during the 1930s depression, Chris Moore left Newcastle with his family for a new life in the south-east of England.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2018
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