Forum Interview: IAS

Immigrants and asylum seekers still face a "xenophobic attitude" from many Europeans, warns the UK Immigration Advisory Service.

In a Forum Interview Keith Best calls on EU governments, NGOs and employers to "get the message across" that migrants are good for the economy and enrich multicultual Europe.

"There is not enough being done," he argues.

"People coming to work in the European Union are not taking the indigenous peoples’ jobs; they are supplementary and they are needed for the economy in the European Union.

"There is still this xenophobic attitude among many people that they don’t want to see people coming from other countries."

Best urges EU decision makers not to "pull up the draw bridge [or] to stop anyone getting into a fortress Europe".

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