It's obvious the Syrians that are fleeing are refugees not migrants yet they don't seem to be allowed that title by the media and we are following their lead by lumping them in with others who are heading to Europe but who are not being persecuted.

Someone somewhere is manipulating emotive language to suit certain agendas. Something is going on.

Remember reading an article last year about a Yale or maybe Harvard grad - can't remember his name annoyingly - in the US who heads up a team who work on a mission to confuse the media and world opinion to such an extent that no one is quite clear about what is really going on anymore.

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Simple answer. You are not a refugee until you have been assessed and it is agreed that you meet the definition of refugee. Until then you are an asylum seeker.
You are only a refugee if you have a well founded fear of persecution in your home country. You are obliged to claim asylum in the first safe country you get to.
If you are getting out of a war zone your situation may be complex. It may be that you certainly have grounds to be afraid but are not being persecuted. It may also be that you can simply move to a different part of the country where there is less danger. Then there are other complications if the basis of your fear is that you have committed criminal acts or war crimes. What may be a war crime to one person may be an act of resistance to another.
The vast majority of applicants do not qualify as refugees but are often allowed to stay because it is dangerous to return them to their home country. It is reasonable to call them migrants.

Yes, I am an agent of Satan but my duties are largely ceremonial

But Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930's went all over and didn't just end up next door in Poland or France and they weren't called migrants. if you are genuinely fleeing a war or murderous persecution wherever you end up surely you are still a refugee and not a migrant.

It is the manipulation of language that is interesting and our subservience to it.

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Think there is a slight difference there Kerms,seeing as Nazi Germany extended most of Europe.
Poland /France/Holland/Austria/Italy all under Nazi rule.
The Jews were being Hunted all over Europe by the nazi, the Migrants/Refugees are not.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

By virtue of our location in Europe we should get very few actual refugees.

Unless they have family here then they should be taking the first safe country.....though there are some reasonable exceptions to this.

Bleeding hearts would like this country to pay for the provision and housing of foreigners when we haven't sorted out the problems of our own population.

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