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For now, at least, it seems that the G-7 – for which an easily affordable influx of refugees has somehow become a “crisis” – will continue to aid the M-7’s rise.
Immigration into the Welfare StateMUNICH – The armed conflict destabilizing some Arab countries has unleashed a huge wave of refugees headed for Europe.
This of course does not apply to economic migrants from non-EU countries, and even less to refugees.
Germany’s Hegemony TrapMUNICH – The prolonged Greek debt crisis and the ongoing influx of refugees into Europe have ignited a debate about Germany’s role within the European Union.
Operated by a Franco-German charity, the Aquarius rescued 630 migrants and refugees off the coast of Libya.
Then Malta, too, turned the refugees away.
Progress has been made on many fronts, including burden-sharing in settling refugees, reforming and strengthening Europe’s border protections and coast guard, concluding agreements with other countries to return migrants, and providing development and governance assistance to address the push factors driving migration.
While wealthy Germany does not want to extend a helping hand to southern EU countries, newly sovereign post-communist countries are rejecting refugees and refusing to show solidarity with Western Europe.
Mohammed’s life changed when Lebanon’s government opened the country’s public schools to refugees.
At a meeting in London in February, international donors recognized the importance of education for refugees, promising to get all of Syria’s refugee children into school by the end of 2017.
But now, just six months later, the promise of education for all refugees is about to be broken, dashing the hopes of millions of Syrians.
Lebanon, Jordan, and (to a lesser extent) Turkey have opened up their public schools to Syrian refugees.
Syrian refugees now comprise one-third of all Lebanese public-school students.
More than 80,000 Syrian refugees now in school in Lebanon are at risk of losing their places.
The human consequences of the education crisis among Syrian refugees are impossible to miss.
They are apparent in the growing army of child laborers picking vegetables in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley or working at garment factories in Turkey, where a half-million refugees are out of school.
Above all, host governments could help refugees become more secure and self-reliant, notably by upgrading their legal status and expanding the right to work.
Some insist that refugees take jobs from natives, which implies that refugees are hard workers; others complain that refugees rely on welfare benefits, which suggests that they work too little.
[Chart]According to the European Social Survey, there is little agreement in Europe about whether refugees and migrants take existing jobs, or actually create new ones (see chart above).
All told, we found little evidence to support the claim that accepting a reasonable number of refugees and migrants from developing countries deprives native-born workers of employment.
Even at first sight, the argument, often made by anti-immigrant politicians, that refugees and migrants are coming to European countries to exploit their social-welfare programs, seems odd.
It is intuitively plausible that refugees could be drawn to countries with faster, more generous asylum procedures.
But studies have repeatedly failed to establish any meaningful correlation between welfare provision and refugees’ choice of destination.
What little knowledge of different countries’ asylum policies refugees do have often is based on rumors, usually heard from smugglers who have little concern for their interests.
War between the Koreas would confront Beijing with a flood of hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Navigating the Syrian EndgameSTOCKHOLM – After a suspiciously sudden conversion, Russian President Vladimir Putin now claims to be worried about the fate of millions of refugees who have fled the carnage in Syria.
With the US stepping back, it is obvious why Putin suddenly wants to talk to the Europeans about the plight of Syrian refugees.
Hence, a new law grants refugees just one year to reclaim their property before the government seizes it; and other bureaucratic requirements seem designed to allow Syrian authorities to refuse reentry to anyone they don’t like.
Whether they are being exposed to refugees firsthand, or just seeing images of them splashed across newspaper pages, Europeans are well aware of the vast numbers of desperate people trying to enter European Union territory by any means possible.
On a per capita basis, Sweden receives 15 times more asylum applications than the United Kingdom, where official policy toward refugees remains the most hostile.
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