However, many migrants cannot claim refugee status, even if their enforced return would amount to personal tragedy and/or economic disaster. Many have not managed to regularise their presence in their new country and live underground, constantly fearing to be caught by the police and sent away. A number have lived in the host country for long periods and may have children at school. In the current atmosphere of xenophobia, migrants have been targeted and some governments have even set quotas on how many should be found and deported through fast-track procedures. It has been necessary – and important – to make clear that irregular migrants have human rights.
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