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Housing, particularly for returning refugees, will need to be constructed fast.
We opened our doors in 1956 and 1968 during the crises in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and again in the 1990s when more than 100 000 refugees from the Balkans found a new home in our country.
For example, the U.S. government intervenes in Haiti to avoid a flood of refugees and imposes sanctions on Cuba because of domestic political benefits.
Independent India came into being as flames blazed across the land, corpse-laden trains crossed the new frontier with Pakistan, and weary refugees abandoned everything to seek a new life.
The Kremlin should view the situation in eastern Ukraine – another unstable, militia-run territory that has already sent a flood of refugees into western Russia – as a similar threat.
Even if we did not incur the same costs as the US over the past decade – the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and the many young people killed or injured – we have paid the price that regional uncertainty always imposes: lost trade, lost growth, refugees, and violence.
Fourteen million or more Chinese were killed from 1937 to 1945, and 80-100 million became refugees.
On the other hand, “frequent regional conflicts, global challenges like terrorism and refugees, as well as poverty, unemployment, and a widening income gap” are generating deep uncertainty.
Meanwhile, the horrific violence in Syria and disorder in North Africa have resulted in a sharp rise in the number of refugees, sparking talk of yet another crisis in the EU.
Indeed, at least ten Turkish cities are now home to more refugees than original inhabitants, and more Syrian refugees are living in Istanbul than in all the EU countries combined.
As a matter of statistics, the EU can clearly accommodate a million or more refugees.
Indeed, at the EU level, the divisions and debates among national governments came to the fore as leaders struggled to reach an agreement on a quota system for the distribution of refugees among member states.
Today, the hot topic is the division between western countries that welcome the refugees and eastern countries that want nothing to do with them.
The leaders of smaller nations must also consider, in contexts like global warming, trade pacts, foreign aid and the treatment of refugees, to what extent they are prepared to consider the interests of "outsiders”.
The Middle East Must Lead on RefugeesFEZ – Since 2012, more than 12 million migrants and refugees have landed in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
With EU member states failing to agree on how to secure external borders, much less what to do with the refugees who have already arrived, an effective, unified response has proved elusive.
Jordan, a country of 6.5 million, now hosts more than 1.4 million, mostly Syrian, refugees.
Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees represent nearly one-third of the country’s population of 4.7 million.
Turkey, with some 75 million citizens, now hosts 2.7 million Syrian refugees, about 30% of whom live in 22 government-run camps near the Syrian border.
With most of the refugees originating in the Middle East – especially Syria, but also Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya – the fact that the region is shouldering the overwhelming share of the burden is not surprising.
The Gulf countries, despite their vast oil wealth, have taken in hardly any refugees; they contend that, because they are not parties to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, they have no obligation to do so.
Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria permit Syrian refugees to enter, but provide no support to those who do; there are no refugees camps in these countries.
Schools in both Jordan and Lebanon were overcrowded even before the refugees arrived; now they are bursting at the seams.
Even the refugees who work in Jordan and Lebanon are creating problems, as they inadvertently suppress wages for lower-skill jobs.
With host countries overstretched, it is unsurprising that refugees live in rough conditions, whether in camps or very poor neighborhoods, with no amenities or sanitation.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees are unemployed, including the most highly skilled among them, whose qualifications are often not recognized.
Most urgently, the wealthy Gulf states should provide more funding to the countries that are hosting the most refugees, thereby enabling them to begin improving living conditions for those seeking safety.
Then, in order to develop a more comprehensive solution that keeps countries stable and ensures that refugees receive adequate protection, deeper collaboration among governments, as well as with the private sector and civil-society organizations across the region, is needed.
To break the impasse, one or two bold and far-sighted leaders need to remind their citizens of their countries’ legal and, perhaps more important, moral duties to the refugees.
In my book New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe, I argue against the conventional wisdom that migrants and refugees are a threat to the Middle East’s security and development.
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