Good for asylum seekers, good for the Dutch treasury and good for business. If you allow refugees to work while they are applying for asylum, everyone benefits, notes economic research agency SEO. Reporter Sezen Moeliker investigated fact and fiction surrounding the working asylum seeker.
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