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Most media coverage focuses on refugees fleeing armed conflict (think Syria) or migrants seeking better economic opportunities than they have at home (think Nigeria or Pakistan).
For example, the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010-2011, which produced a massive wave of refugees, were triggered by a rise in wheat prices, which led to widespread bread riots that morphed into broader political revolutions.
Even the lowest estimate of 25 million climate-change migrants, the report warns, “would dwarf the current levels of new refugees and internally displaced persons.”
It is becoming increasingly clear that ensuring economic opportunities for refugees should be high on the EU’s agenda.
Where possible, the EU should work with countries currently hosting refugees to establish development zones where displaced Syrians are allowed to work legally.
Young people are being forced to interrupt their education, and refugees are fully or partly barred from legal labor markets, owing to fears that they will compete for jobs with local inhabitants.
The longer refugees remain in poor living conditions, with inadequate educational facilities for the young and no real employment opportunities, the more likely the camps are to turn into centers of disenchantment, boredom, and radicalization.
As the fighting back home drags on, the risk that refugees will never be able to integrate into a stable society is growing.
The aim of development zones in frontline countries should thus be to generate benefits for both refugees and the host communities.
Displaced Syrian entrepreneurs and foreign companies could establish activities in the zone and employ both Syrian refugees and workers from the host countries.
It could also include combined manufacturing and training programs, with European employers sending skilled workers to train refugees.
Apart from capital injections for construction work, support could take the form of subsidized rents or assistance for firms that employ refugees.
Like European countries, Syria’s neighbors worry about the possible long-term presence of refugees.
Against this backdrop, UN member governments should acknowledge the gap between the ideals they espoused last year and the harsh realities many migrants and refugees continue to face today.
World leaders can rectify this at this month’s General Assembly meeting – and specifically at today’s unprecedented summit on migration and refugees.
Countries and nongovernmental organizations must remain vigilant against exploitation of migrants, and governments should share responsibility for accommodating refugees.
Europe's Designer DemagoguesThe world needs a Europe committed to internationalism, generous to its former colonies, and willing to absorb its share of migrants and refugees.
The same is true with respect to the President’s assertion that Israel’s permanent presence in Palestinian territories and the non-return of Palestinian refugees to their homes in Israel must be accepted as realities on the ground.
This state of affairs inevitably affects French attitudes toward receiving migrants and refugees, most of whom come from predominantly Muslim countries.
Already, Africa has ten million “climate refugees.”
Today, the number of “desplazados” from Colombia’s guerrilla wars (1.5 million refugees at the latest count) is greater than the population of all but three of our largest cities and forms the third largest group of refugees in the world.
What We Owe Refugee ChildrenBEIRUT – Last year, images of desperate refugees, many of them children, stirred our collective conscience and prompted world leaders to take action.
But a year of political upheaval has diverted media attention from refugees’ plight.
All refugees and asylum-seekers need help, but children are especially vulnerable.
Among UNHCR-registered refugees, including those fleeing from Afghanistan and Somalia, 3.75 million children – 900,000 of them Syrian – are not in school.
But, in Lebanon, we have had to resort to creative thinking to accommodate the influx of refugees from Syria.
When Syrian refugees first arrived, Lebanon’s education system was already in need of repair and reform.
Now, Lebanon is host to some two million migrants, including 1.5 million Syrian refugees, in addition to its population of 3.75 million.
To help meet this need, we have created the Reaching all Children with Education (RACE) initiative, focused on improving access to formal education for Syrian refugees and underprivileged Lebanese.
Today, many school-age Syrian refugees are studying under the same teachers as their Lebanese peers, and many of our schools are running double shifts in mornings and afternoons to accommodate refugees.
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