The migrants are not all from conflict areas like Syria, and thus do not, according to international law, have a “right to asylum.” There are also plenty of economic migrants from, say, the poorer parts of the Balkans, hoping to escape poverty at home – and willing to misuse the asylum system in the process.
但这场危机还有另一面，让解决它变得非常复杂。移民并非全部来自冲突地区，如叙利亚，因此，根据国际法，他们不具有“避难权”。有很多移民是来自（比如）巴尔干较穷地区的经济移民，他们的愿望是摆脱家乡的贫困——并准备在移民过程中滥用避难制度。