2. Ask The Expert: UK's Push and Pull Factors for Asylum Seekers

Social Market Foundation - Think Tank

This talk with Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, will explore the main reason given by successive governments for these restrictions on the economic rights and entitlements of asylum seekers: that they act as pull factors for disingenuous applicants. What is the evidence to support this claim and do economic restrictions work as intended?