ABSTRACT
The number of immigrants into the U. K. is growing, encouraged by cheap travel and facilitated by the criminalisation of migration, awareness of universal human claim rights, particularly asylum rights, and the global dissemination of Western life styles by television. Migration arises from escape from ethno-national conflicts, the gross disparity between the living standards of the "first" and the "third" worlds, and the world's population growth. A static economy, and the movement of industry and work to economically more favourable global locations, could deny to the underclass the secure employment once available in large cities. The 1951 UN Convention on Refugees reflected the post-war global political stability, albeit sometimes under totalitarian or colonial rule, and the pre-Cold war idealism of the American and British founders of the UN. The Dublin Convention replaced the Schengen Agreement, as the governing European law, and was another attempt to coordinate EU control of refugees.
