In Germany, there is a legal entitlement to asylum based on the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: “In Germany, people have the right under Article 16a(1) of the Basic Law to apply for asylum. People are granted asylum in Germany with a residence permit for three years if they are subjected to serious human rights violations in their country of origin on grounds of their ‘race’, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership of a particular social group. International protection as a refugee under the Geneva Convention with a residence permit for three years is granted pursuant to Section 3 of the Asylum Act if there is a well-founded fear of persecution on the aforementioned grounds.” 29
The legal provisions on asylum were created against the background of political persecution during the Second World War.
Woke activists campaign for a so-called “world of open borders” and use the legal right to asylum for this purpose. It is often argued that no one could choose their country of birth. From this obvious fact, a right to uncontrolled migration is derived. To this end, asylum law should be extended to economic refugees, border controls abolished, and legal migration routes created. Conservative efforts to reduce or stop mass migration from crisis countries are passionately framed as right-wing extremist, nationalist, and racist.30 Deportations of persons without a right to remain are framed as contrary to human rights. Migrants should not be seen as illegal immigrants but as persecuted persons seeking protection who also provide cultural and economic enrichment (see Narrative).31 Europeans allegedly have a moral debt towards migrants (see Postcolonialism and Climate Justice).32
Behind these ostensibly humanitarian motives lie political self-interests: new population groups are to be imported in order to conduct activism in their name. Migrants, as alleged victims of racism, would have a claim to participation, redistribution, voting rights, and quotas. In this way, new clienteles are to be recruited whom one wishes to represent as advocates (see Integration, Self-Organisation, and Post-Migrant Society).