Asylum-seeker

Economic migrant

someone who goes to a new country because living conditions or opportunities for jobs are not good in their own country. This word is used by governments to show that a person is not considered a refugee (=someone who has been forced to leave their country for political reasons).

a person who leaves their home country to live in another country with better work or living conditions (Cambridge dictionary)

Political exile

someone who has been forced to live in a foreign country because they cannot live in their own country, usually for political reasons

a person who is sent or kept away from their own country, etc.

Illegal immigrant

someone who enters a country illegally, or who stays for a longer time than they are legally allowed

asylum-seeker

someone who leaves their own country for their safety, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there

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Ireland, Italy and Spain benefited from financial transfers from waves of economic migrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, as did the world's great empires before them, albeit in a rather cruder fashion.

The most complicated part of the system is the broad criteria around economic migration.

Chen Guangcheng knows exile isn't easy, but it may be his best bet.

In exile in the US for the rest of his life, as well as pursuing his academic career as an astrophysicist, he remained active in speaking out for human rights in China along with other exiles of 1989, including Wang Dan.

Services company Capita has won a government contract to help find and remove more than 150,000 illegal immigrants who have overstayed their visas, it has been revealed.

Four men believed to be illegal immigrants burst out of the back of a lorry in Hampshire and were chased down the M27 motorway by police.

Forty children held in adult detention centers while seeking asylum are understood to have received a share of £1m compensation from the Home Office.

An organization which works with asylum seekers in Scotland has claimed that about 140 of them are facing homelessness.

The case of a baby killed after the car in which he was sleeping was stolen has sparked outrage in China.

On Monday a man stole a car parked outside a shop in Changchun, in Jilin province, and headed to the motorway.

Jilin police say when the thief, Zhou Xijun, realised that there was a baby on the back seat he strangled the two-month-old and buried him in the snow.

He gave himself up on Tuesday after a manhunt involving more than 3,500 policemen and media appeals.

The death of the baby was met with shock, disbelief and outrage on Chinese media and social media, threatening to upstage the National People's Congress coverage.

The topic has generated nearly 3 million hits on Tencent Weibo, and more than 400,000 on Sina Weibo, Chinese equivalents of Twitter.

The official Sina Weibo account of People's Daily's newspaper wrote: "Baby Haobo, sleep well - you are not big enough to experience the first spring yet...... but the person who hurt you will be punished and we will try to the make the world you hardly knew a better place."

Others mourned what they saw as the death of a caring and safe society. "What has this world come to"? one netizen laments on Sina. "How can humanity sink so low?"

Noted author Liu Liu felt that such disregard for human life could only be cured by the whole of society raising its moral level.

There have been calls for the death penalty, with some also blaming the parents for failing to look after the child.

The baby's father, the shop owner, had apparently left the car door open and ignition on so he could light a fire indoors before bringing in the baby.

According to reports, the mother of the dead baby had been taken to hospital after collapsing.

Meanwhile, in what has been criticised as a crass PR move, a Buick car dealership in neighbouring Liaoning province used their Sina Weibo account to say their cars carry a GPS system "allowing the lockdown of a stolen vehicle at any time and place. Why not buy a completely safe Buick?"

The advert used a picture of the dead baby, along with two of the dealership's new cars.

This attracted strong condemnation and a calls for a boycott of the car-maker. One commentator said it was "milking the tragic death of the baby". "Totally sick!" said another.

The dealership has since apologised, saying the advert had been totally inappropriate and that it deeply regretted the "hurt it had caused to the family of the victims and society".

suspend verb (STOP)

/səˈspend/ v

Definition

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[T] to stop or to cause to be not active, either temporarily or permanently

The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.

The President has suspended the constitution and assumed total power.

When you go to the theatre, you have to be willing to suspend disbelief (= to act as if you believe that what you are seeing is real or true, although you know that it is not).

I'm suspending judgment (= not forming an opinion) on the book I'm reading until I've finished it.

legal Mr Young was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years (= If he commits another crime within two years, he will have to go to prison for six months for his original crime).

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[T] If someone is suspended from work, school, etc., they are temporarily not allowed to work, go to school or take part in an activity because they have done something wrong

She was suspended from school for fighting.

He was suspended for four matches after arguing with the referee.

suspend verb (HANG)

/səˈspend/ v

Definition

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[T usually + adverb or preposition] to hang

The builders worked on wooden platforms, suspended by ropes from the roof of the building.

It was very uncomfortable lying on the hospital bed with my legs suspended in the air.

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[T usually + adverb or preposition] If small pieces of solid material are suspended in a gas or a liquid, they hang or float in the gas or liquid

The drug is suspended in a saline solution.

A cloud of smoke was suspended in the air.

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