Let me be the bastard who states the obvious: there’s no refugee crisis in the West. There’s an economic refugee crisis. And it’s not the same thing. A refugee is defined by the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention as someone who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.