This talk with Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, will explore the main reason given by successive governments for these restrictions on the economic rights and entitlements of asylum seekers: that they act as pull factors for disingenuous applicants. What is the evidence to support this claim and do economic restrictions work as intended?

In the first of our new Ask the Expert podcast series, we are joined by Professor Adam Cygan, lecturer in EU law at the University of Leicester and Brexit lead researcher on Parties, Parliament and the Brexit Process at The UK in a Changing Europe.