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In fact, Australia has accepted roughly 7,000-10,000 refugees annually from UNHCR camps.
Former Prime Minister John Howard’s government linked boat arrivals to the total number of accepted refugees.
So, for every boat arrival, the number of refugees accepted from official UNHCR camps fell.
Previously, as during the Indochinese exodus, the number of refugees allowed to settle in Australia was added to the official intake.
There are currently 1.56 million refugees in Europe, including 571,700 in Germany and 193,500 in the United Kingdom.
Rather than describing the circumstances from which people flee – and publicizing the fact that roughly 85% of boat people are genuine refugees – policymakers on both sides have demonized the victims, convincing Australians that they are undeserving.
But if the Australian people are given the facts, they will be the best advocates for refugees – far better than Australia’s politicians.
Hungary played a special role in the collapse of Communism, accelerating the process by opening its borders for East German refugees.
The Roots of German OpennessPARIS – “Germany, Germany,” shout thousands of refugees, faced with the obvious bad will of Hungary’s political authorities, in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station.
With firmness and clarity, Merkel has condemned all forms of xenophobia and criticized her European counterparts for refusing to accept refugees.
When history knocks at the door so powerfully – this time, in the form of hundreds of thousands of refugees – one cannot waste time appeasing or, worse, courting populist movements.
With its shrinking and aging population, Germany needs more young, motivated people to keep its economy thriving – a need that refugees can fill.
After years of destabilizing economic crisis, which has yet to be fully overcome, most European societies feel wholly unprepared – socially, economically, politically, and even psychologically – to receive the flood of refugees.
Likewise, Hungary is not protecting Europe by building walls to keep the refugees out.
Europe needs refugees to prosper, and the refugees need Europe to survive.
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.
Newly arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq are joining Palestinian refugees who have long been here.
Refugees are going to school.
End the addiction, and the recent refugees could return home.
Genuinely free and fair local elections, with the participation of all displaced people and refugees, will never be possible without a substantial international presence.
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.
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.
What the British did for us, the extraordinary generosity they showed refugees like me during those difficult war years, stood out.
So far, the United Kingdom has accepted only a relatively small number of refugees from the Middle East.
Still, the UK and other European countries must do much more to protect the desperate refugees seeking safe haven.
But other European countries – in particular, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia – staunchly oppose the quota agreement, part of a generally hostile stance that aggravates the refugees’ hardship.
One recalls the reluctance on the part of the Dutch and the Belgians even to issue transit visas to refugees like me attempting to reach England from Germany during World War II, for fear that we would remain in their countries.
Hungary’s stated aim of maintaining Europe’s Christian character, echoed in declarations by Poland and Slovakia that they would accept only Christian refugees, is particularly perverse.
Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey have already accepted much larger numbers of refugees, despite the serious strain this is putting on their economies and societies.
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