0 a person who leaves their home country to live in another country with better working or living conditions --
1 someone who goes to live in another country because it is possible to earn more money or to have a better standard of living there than in their own country: --
In reality, the line demarcating economic migrants from political migrants is often artificial.
An economic migrant is distinct from someone who is a refugee fleeing persecution.
Persons who are declared an economic migrant can be refused entry into a country.
A migrant who fled because of economic hardship is an economic migrant.
It is difficult to criticise them personally for that, but we are a small country and cannot afford to take every economic migrant who wants to come here.
Was she an economic migrant?
The economic migrant would be discouraged.
It is not the genuine refugee who responds to economic incentives; it is the economic migrant masquerading as an asylum seeker who responds to such incentives.
