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Indeed, fortified frontiers are most effective at stopping poor migrants and refugees.
And even then, rather than preventing migrants from entering, fortifications all too often funnel them toward more dangerous crossing points.
Migrants’ remittance behavior is essentially dictated by the regulatory environment and the quality – in terms of speed, cost, security, and accessibility – of products and services offered by banks, money-transfer companies, micro-finance institutions, and informal operators.
The Hispanic approach emphasizes migrants’ involvement in banking by offering a range of banking services in both the country of origin and the host country, products of specific interest to migrants, and low commissions on foreign transfers.
Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad.
The financial crisis is long forgotten, public budgets are under control; and the 2015 influx of migrants has been relatively well managed.
That means distinguishing between economic migrants and refugees, strengthening border controls, and boosting cooperation with third countries.
Then came the start of the refugee crisis, when Italy waved migrants through the Alps, essentially outsourcing the problem to France and Austria.
And Germany does not represent just an abstract hope; the country is welcoming more migrants than any of its European counterparts, with Chancellor Angela Merkel having announced that the country will take at least 800,000 asylum-seekers this year.
After all, the United States would not have become the leading world power in less than two centuries without the successive waves of migrants that landed on its shores.
Eradication is also difficult because TB is a highly contagious airborne bacterium; people living and working in close quarters – such as miners, prisoners, migrants, and refugees – suffer the highest rates of infection.
That news came on top of the Syrian refugee crisis, terrorist attacks by Syrian migrants and disaffected children of earlier immigrants, and highly publicized reports of assaults on women and girls by migrants in Germany and elsewhere.
Instead, police national and EU borders to stop illegal migrants.
It is common sense that countries with the world’s most generous social-welfare provisions (Western Europe) must say no to millions (indeed hundreds of millions) of would-be migrants.
Walls and fences won’t stop millions of migrants fleeing violence, extreme poverty, hunger, disease, droughts, floods, and other ills.
It is not so much the illegality of their entrance into the US that riles many conservative Republicans; it’s the migrants themselves, especially Hispanics who can’t speak English.
Never mind that Hispanic migrants are among the hardest-working people in the US.
But non-state actors – individuals, nongovernmental organizations, and private companies – have been just as important in responding to the crisis, often literally coming to the rescue of refugees and migrants.
The private sector provides critical support for migrants as they travel through legal pathways and integrate into new communities.
Worldwide, only one-tenth of the people who need resettlement have been offered a place to call home, and half of all migrants are hosted in only ten countries.
On the Greek island of Lesbos last year, more than 50,000 individual volunteers and NGOs such as Sea of Solidarity and the Hellenic Rescue Team, which this week won UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award, assisted exhausted migrants arriving from their traumatic sea crossing.
After migrants arrive, NGOs – such as Refugees Welcome, established by three young Germans, and Startup Refugees, the brainchild of a pair of TV celebrities in Finland – help them find accommodation and employment opportunities, or even launch new businesses.
Multinational companies like Google, Oracle, and Ericsson are already using information technology to help migrants and the communities that host them, and volunteers within the IT sector have founded Techfugees to coordinate the industry’s efforts.
Meanwhile, new start-ups have created apps to deliver real-time information to migrants on the move.
Migrants can now use a scattering of Internet hotspots to access digital services and correspond with loved ones.
The Concordia Summit also will consider measures to improve migrants’ access to education and employment, and look for new ways to channel private-sector investment to host communities.
In Canada, for example, private citizens can sponsor migrants for resettlement and help them adapt to their new environment.
But, more generally, we need to change the narrative to correct the many public misperceptions about migrants, while highlighting the numerous economic and social benefits migration brings.
Fortunately, global-governance institutions are taking the migration crisis seriously, and the Concordia Summit will coincide with the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants, organized by the President of the UN General Assembly.
For government and non-state advocates alike, this month should be the start of a new chapter in global cooperation to accommodate migrants and refugees.
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