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The massacres in Palestinian refugee camps prompted a new commitment to “restore a strong and central government” to Lebanon, to quote President Ronald Reagan.
Meanwhile, the US, after raising its total contribution for Syrian refugee assistance to $3.7 billion last March, has provided an additional pledge of $508 million.
So far, there are no United Nations refugee camps, only modest aid from religious organizations and other NGOs.
The long-term problems may be even more severe, with diseases that were once under control, such as measles and AIDS, running rampant among the refugee population, which intermingles easily with the culturally similar Colombians.
But the US can and should greatly step up financial and logistical aid to help neighboring states deal with the overwhelming refugee problem.
In principle, there are four ways to do something meaningful about the refugee problem.
The final aspect of any refugee program involves finding places for them to go.
The refugee issue provides yet another glaring example of the gap between what needs to be done to meet a global challenge and what the world is prepared to do.
But, at home, opposition to her refugee policy gathered momentum.
In recent years, large swaths of Central and Eastern Europe’s electorates have been mobilized by populist rhetoric, and the region’s governments have refused to cooperate with the EU’s collective response to the refugee crisis.
A soi disant “burkaphobe,” he has been a vocal critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy; and he has called for laws to regulate what can be preached in mosques, and to create a registry for Muslim clerics.
The “Leave” campaign exploited the deteriorating refugee situation – symbolized by frightening images of thousands of asylum-seekers concentrating in Calais, desperate to enter Britain by any means necessary – to stoke fear of “uncontrolled” immigration from other EU member states.
And the European authorities delayed important decisions on refugee policy in order to avoid a negative effect on the British referendum vote, thereby perpetuating scenes of chaos like the one in Calais.
The solution to the Syrian crisis, including the growing refugee crisis in Europe, must run through the United Nations Security Council.
This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root.
Economists on the Refugee PathNEW HAVEN – Today’s global refugee crisis recalls the period immediately after World War II.
Unfortunately, the report underscores the incompleteness of our understanding of the refugee problem.
Historians record wars, and they mention diasporas, but they rarely show much interest in how refugee crises arose or were resolved.
And the refugee crisis, whatever else it may be, is an economic problem.
I asked them to describe the dimensions of the refugee problem in economic terms, and to propose some sensible policies to address it.
One of the papers, by Timothy J. Hatton of the University of Essex and Australian National University, examined refugee flows around the world, to see what drives them.
He finds that, contrary to some expectations, refugee flows are driven largely by political terror and human rights abuses, not economic forces.
Another paper, by Susan F. Martin of Georgetown University, described the arbitrariness of our current refugee procedures, calling for “legal frameworks based on the need for protection, rather than the triggering causes of the migration.”
The framers of a refugee system need to consider the rules’ incentive effects on the migrants themselves and on the governments of their countries of origin.
Now, as governments erect barriers and reinstate border controls, the refugee crisis is disrupting flows of people and gumming up trade.
The eurozone and refugee crises have common features that make them tricky to resolve.
Merkel has played a much more positive role in the refugee crisis.
Still, not enough engineering expertise has been brought to bear in refugee settlements, whose populations have swelled in recent years as more people have had to flee from conflicts and natural disasters.
Third, and perhaps most important, engineers themselves need to step up their engagement with people and groups working on the front lines of the refugee crisis.
A handful of bioengineering startups and aid groups, such as Engineers Without Borders, have begun to tackle health-related problems in refugee communities.
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