Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization

Evidence

Right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban once contended that the “overwhelming majority” of Syrian and Iraqi refugees were actually “economic migrants” and not refugees; thus allowing him to deport anyone that he chose from Hungary. Since the vast majority of refugees on the planet are Muslim, this global debate about whether to frame these destitute populations as “refugees” or “migrants” is now very narrowly focused with Islamophobia lurking nearby. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 730 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Border control is central to global capitalism’s logic of exploiting cheap labor; Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity; Globalization moves everything except poor people freely (+4 more)

Related

• Orban mislabeled refugees as economic migrants to justify deportation (similarity 0.88)
• Modern refugees are persecuted for what they are, not what they did (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Globalization moves everything except poor people freely #expands (0.85)
• Migrants become scapegoats for the loss of an imaginary Golden Age of homogeneity #responds-to (0.80)
• Orban mislabeled refugees as economic migrants to justify deportation #exemplifies (0.80) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 730
• Migration and foreign labor eroded the nation-state’s prestige #qualifies (0.75)
• Migration and global media collapsed the conceptual distance separating Europeans from Muslims #expands (0.70) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 569