In practice, however, it has never been simple to distinguish between economic and political migrants, because political persecution usually includes economic restrictions. The Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, or Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, were both economic and political migrants.
但是，在实践中，你无法简单地分别经济和政治移民，因为政治迫害常常包含经济限制。犹太人在十九世纪末大量逃离东欧和20世纪30年代逃离希特勒的德国，他们既是经济移民，也是政治移民。20世纪60年代东非亚洲人被迫离开乌干达也是如此。