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All of them were, in the parlance of the current immigration and refugee debate, “economic migrants.”
Europe’s labor force must grow, which is just one reason why Europeans should stop treating migrants as a threat and start viewing them as an opportunity.
It has a free press and an open society; it welcomes migrants and refugees; it has a thirst for new ideas and a knack for innovation.
Europe’s inability to get its own house in order has engendered a new Italian majority that is planning to expel a half-million migrants, blowing fresh winds into the sails of militant racists in Hungary, Poland, France, Britain, the Netherlands, and, of course, Germany itself.
Another worrisome trend is the increasingly sophisticated use of hate speech directed against minorities and migrants.
With popular destinations like the United States and Canada cutting back on research and public education and facing the need to raise top tax rates, Europe has a unique opportunity to attract skilled migrants and reduce the exodus of European researchers.
Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.
Stark inequalities also exist within cities, mainly between those with a hukou (a record in China’s official household-registration system) and migrants without one.
Stronger land rights for farmers will deprive city authorities of the land-conversion revenues needed to provide public services to new urban migrants.
This money could then help to finance the additional health care, education, and low-income housing required by new migrants.
If one were to listen to these parties’ rhetoric, one might think that refugees and migrants are pouring into Europe unhindered.
And though the refugee situation in the Central Mediterranean continues to make headlines, the number of migrants crossing from North Africa has actually declined sharply over the past year.
How to Resolve Europe’s Political Crisis Over MigrationBRUSSELS – Since the European Union’s migration crisis peaked in 2015, the number of illegal migrants arriving in the EU has fallen by 95%.
Yes, Europe’s current asylum policies, which put the burden almost entirely on the countries that receive the most migrants, have failed.
Such platforms, if organized in accordance with human rights standards, could allow rapid processing to distinguish between economic migrants and those in need of international protection, while reducing the incentive to embark on perilous journeys in the hands of human traffickers.
Of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya in recent years, the vast majority land in – or are rescued and brought to – Italy.
Most are in fact economic migrants, but they present themselves as refugees because that is the only legal way to stay in Europe.
Moreover, the distribution of migrants and refugees in Italy tends to be concentrated around metropolitan centers that lack adequate housing, which also makes the problem seem much larger than it actually is.
Sympathy for the MigrantGENEVA – The tragic fate of the several hundred Africans who drowned near the Italian island of Lampedusa in October made international headlines, leading to a rare moment of compassion and reflection about the dangers facing many migrants.
For Lampedusa’s residents, shipwrecks involving refugees and migrants are a common occurrence: a week later, a boat carrying Syrian and Palestinian refugees capsized off the shores of the island, leaving more than 30 people dead.
In the Asia-Pacific region, hundreds of migrants and refugees have drowned this year in the Bay of Bengal or while trying to reach Australia.
On the contrary, migrants started to explore alternative and mostly dangerous routes with a frequent rate of deaths at sea.”
Of course, not all migrants are refugees or require protection.
In fact, migrants on the same boat may have very different motives – what policymakers call “mixed migration.”
But, faced with a complex picture, states have tended to address the flow of migrants they deem undesirable by saying, in effect, “out of sight, out of mind.”
A single-minded focus on sealing borders – a particularly worrying trend in states’ approach to migration controls today – tends to regard migrants as unwanted trespassers even before their status can be determined, their rights upheld, or their contributions acknowledged.
The continuing rise in migrant deaths in transit poses a conundrum: as these migrants are pushed toward trafficking and smuggling networks, they are dragged further into the grey areas of the international community’s response.
As an international community, we owe migrants and refugees greater compassion.
A recent opinion poll by the EMNID institute, commissioned by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, indicates that one in two people in Germany believe that international migrants could fill gaps in the labor market in the future.
And, though a vast majority of respondents said that Germany is an attractive destination for skilled migrants, more than half thought that migration laws should be reformed.
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