Asylum shopping
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Asylum shopping is a term used mostly in the context of the European Union and the Schengen area of the phenomenon where an asylum seeker applies for asylum in several member states in order to find the easiest acceptance or best social security payments, because the asylum seeker is able to seek asylum in another state if rejected by one state. One of the objectives of Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters is to prevent asylum shopping[1]. The Dublin Convention stipulates that an asylum seeker is returned into the country where they entered the area (EU and Switzerland).
Asylum shopping can also refer to determining which nation to seek political asylum in on law grounds as claiming that right may shorten one's hoped-for stay.
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- ^ Select Committee on European Union Tenth Report, House of Lords
