Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
They aren't refugees, but work migrants.
That's complete rubbish, if they flee from a war or another danger, then they are usually refugees.

Quote Originally Posted by UNHCR
The 1951 Refugee Convention spells out that a refugee is someone who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country."
http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c125.html