ABSTRACT
In Europe today, non-white migration continues to excite strong sentiments. This chapter attempts to discuss reasons why the word migrant has become synonymous with the word ‘black’ when this is palpably not the case and why EU governments are avoiding their obligations under the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, by describing refugees as ‘economic migrants’. It concludes by inviting the international community to broaden the definition of the refugee in order to take account of the reality of the position of the asylum seeker today.
