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Beyond reducing the incentive for asylum-seekers to risk their lives and life savings to cross the Mediterranean, such an approach would show solidarity with the frontline countries, which will continue to host most of the
refugees.
That brings us to the second priority for 2016: building a robust global system to protect
refugees
and other vulnerable migrants.
This requires, first and foremost, agreement by more countries to accept
refugees.
In recent years, the UN Refugee Agency has been able to resettle fewer than 75,000 of more than 20 million
refugees
annually.
In 2016, developed countries should agree to accept a combined total approaching a million
refugees
annually, either through resettlement or by issuing humanitarian, student, labor, and other visas.
With Canada alone saying that it will resettle 50,000 Syrian
refugees
this year, it is clear that this target is achievable.
At the same time, the international community must support the integration of
refugees
in major host countries like Turkey, Kenya, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Lebanon’s water-supply system, for example, is faltering under the strain of the massive influx of
refugees.
In exchange for funding, host countries should agree to integrate
refugees
fully into their schools, labor markets, and civic institutions.
It is a matter of life and death for 20 million
refugees
and millions of other vulnerable migrants – and a profound test of the civic health of democratic societies worldwide.
The German post-war consensus is collapsing in key areas – history (attitudes toward WWII), geopolitics (attitudes toward Russia), the economy (attitudes toward the auto industry), and ethics (attitudes toward refugees) – and this is reflected in the fracturing of the political scene.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
The refugee crisis has shaken Europe to its core, because, rather than taking collective responsibility for managing the flood of migrants and
refugees
into Europe, we have mostly shifted the burden to frontline countries.
When Burma joined ASEAN in 1997, there were only 210,000 Burmese
refugees
and asylum seekers throughout the region.
Engaging the World in SyriaABU DHABI – A global security crisis of historic proportions is raging in the Middle East, and spreading by the day, as millions of
refugees
flee Syria and Iraq.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier traveled to Turkey in September to help broker a deal on keeping
refugees
in Turkey, in exchange for restarting talks on Turkish accession to the European Union.
The Hungarian government has called for a referendum on accepting its quota of
refugees
set by the EU.
Italy is blocking a European Union decision to bribe Turkey to keep
refugees
from crossing over into Greece on their way to Germany, Sweden, or other northern European countries.
Burden-sharing – that is, a “fair” allocation of
refugees
throughout the EU (to be hashed out politically) – appears to be a pipe dream.
Economically, accommodating
refugees
will be a challenge for quite some time.
Refugees
would just be pushed back to Greece, the most fragile and vulnerable link in the chain.
Refugees
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So when Trump signed an executive order to bar anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, and to close the door to
refugees
from Syria indefinitely, she avoided any strong statements.
But, as the debate over
refugees
rages on, one must ask: Are “safe zones for women” Europe’s future?
And Kouchner himself, to the cynical amusement of the French press, has retreated radically from his insistence on an immediate intervention to protect
refugees
and internally displaced people in Darfur from further slaughter by the Sudanese government-backed Janjawid militia.
In the interim, thousands of Ukrainians have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more have been turned into
refugees
in their own country.
Faced with inflows of huge numbers of
refugees
from the Middle East and Africa – inflows that exceed many countries’ absorptive capacity – the EU may need to modify the free movement of people for a period of time.
Though this shift is yet to be fully funded, it reflects the long overdue recognition by governments and aid agencies that humanitarian crises are not over in weeks or months, and that
refugees
need more than food and shelter.
Refugees
spend an average of ten years away from their homes.
The failure to fund education for
refugees
is no accident.
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