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And retraining a refugee doctor is cheaper and faster than educating a new medical student.
With approximately 600 refugee doctors living in Britain, the well of untapped talent in the UK is deep.
Moreover, refugee patients benefit when treated by doctors who understand their circumstances, including the enormous psychosocial stress that displacement causes.
Britain is not alone in recognizing the potential of refugee doctors.
The goal is to enable qualified Syrian professionals to treat refugee patients, thus mitigating the language and logistical barriers to effective, accessible, and dignified care.
In Lebanon and Jordan, for example, where more than 1.6 million registered Syrian refugees currently live, efforts to allow Syrian doctors to care for refugee patients have been criminalized.
Even Canada, a country that generally welcomes diversity and values human rights, is behind the curve on innovative approaches to refugee health.
Amid this resistance, refugee health care should be viewed as more than a set of logistical and operational challenges, but also as an inherently political process.
Two dimensions of the issue must be addressed if refugee patients are ever to be properly cared for, and refugee doctors properly deployed.
For starters, refugee doctors may struggle to be accepted by their local colleagues, owing to political or personal bias.
Recognizing the potential for local resistance to integration programs for refugee doctors is essential to develop proactive policies that ensure success.
Moreover, refugee doctors must be trained to address the diversity of medical needs they will face in their adoptive homes.
For refugee doctors relocating to countries where LGBTI health and rights are recognized, integration curricula should include training on LGBTI health, particularly the rights of exceptionally vulnerable LGBTI refugees.
The refugee crisis that has engulfed Syria is just one ripple in a tidal wave of global displacement.
Every one of these future refugees will need access, at some point, to medical professionals trained in refugee health, diversity, and inclusion.
Empowering refugee doctors to become part of the solution will help overcome entrenched dogmas toward refugee diversity and social identities.
But, just as important, it will mark a crucial step forward in ensuring more inclusive refugee health.
According to tripartite agreements between the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, four of the largest camps in Pakistan are to be closed and all Afghans living there repatriated.
Good leaders today are often caught between their cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the people who elect them – as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has discovered in the wake of her brave leadership on the refugee crisis last summer.
The Promise of RegrexitLONDON – Until the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the refugee crisis was the greatest problem Europe faced.
Fourth, the EU’s plans for dealing with the refugee crisis need to be thoroughly revised.
Let us be clear: The view driving these movements – that the EU is at the root of Europe’s myriad problems, from economic hardship to the refugee crisis, and that withdrawal (or unilateral action) is the only way to resolve them – is patently false.
But Barak skipped a cruelly candid paragraph in Dayan’s speech that evoked the imposing magnitude of the Palestinian plight: “Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today….For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.
Europe’s loss of integrity became painfully evident in the latest turn in the refugee crisis.
Indeed, it is what has rendered Europe incapable of absorbing external shocks – like last summer’s refugee influx.
For Israel, the cease-fire with Hamas reflects its reluctance to become mired in another asymmetric war like the one it fought in Lebanon two summers ago, this time in the alleys of Gaza’s refugee camps.
The threats to internal stability are large and growing; and, as Venezuela shows, when internal order breaks down, regional stability is put at risk by refugee flows, gangs, and drug cartels.
Moreover, the high-quality population data needed for credible estimates may not be available due to their “sensitive nature,” or because they never have been collected (sometimes the case in developing nations), or because refugee movements have made data obsolete.
The result has been chronic violence and instability, leading to massive refugee flows into Europe that have upended politics in one EU member state after another.
European leaders should have been much more energetic at the United Nations in opposing America’s hegemonic policy in the Middle East, with its catastrophic effects, including mass displacement and refugee movements.
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