Only a fraction of asylum-seekers’ applications are ultimately approved, because most applicants are not politically persecuted but simply economic migrants. In the first half of 2015, for instance, only about one-quarter of applicants came from Syria and Iraq, a significant proportion of whom had already found shelter in the UN camps in or around those countries.
只有一小部分寻求庇护者的申请最终会被批准，因为大部分申请者并未受到政治迫害，他们纯粹是经济移民。比如，2015年上半年，只有四分之一的申请者来自叙利亚和伊拉克，很大一部分人已经在这些国家内部或周边找到了收容所。但叙利亚难民占比随后快速膨胀，部分是因为有传播开来的消息称德国批准了大部分叙利亚申请。