This article examines the impact of law and policy changes enacted in times of crisis on asylum seekers, and considers the extent to which considerations of vulnerability have played a part in the various approaches of governments. What emerges is a shift towards further exclusion, and a widening divide between how states approach citizens versus others. The result is enhanced vulnerability, and an environment in which the utility of the vulnerability concept to provide the necessary levels of support and protection is tested. By looking at how vulnerability is used by states, and contrasting this use with how the concept is often used by other community actors, the article asks what role the concept of vulnerability might play in the effects of crises on vulnerable groups and the priorities and actions of states.

本文探讨了危机时期颁布的法律和政策变化对寻求庇护者的影响，并考虑了脆弱性考虑在政府各种方法中发挥作用的程度。随之而来的是进一步排斥的转变，以及国家对待公民与其他人的方式之间的分歧不断扩大。结果是增强了脆弱性，并且测试了脆弱性概念提供必要级别的支持和保护的实用性的环境。通过研究各国如何使用脆弱性，并将这种使用与其他社区参与者经常使用这一概念的方式进行对比，本文提出了脆弱性概念在危机对弱势群体的影响以及优先事项和行动中可能发挥什么作用。的国家。