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Yet its population is more than six million, not including the 1.5 million Syrian
refugees
who currently reside in the country.
In times of shortage, it is the
refugees
who are likely to be among the first to feel the effects.
Putin’s current aim is to foster the EU’s disintegration, and the best way to do so is to flood the EU with Syrian
refugees.
There are now 20,000 Syrian
refugees
camped out in the desert awaiting admission to Jordan.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Ankara on February 9 to make last-minute arrangements with the Turkish government to induce the
refugees
already in Turkey to prolong their stay there.
She offered to airlift 200,000-300,000 Syrian
refugees
annually directly to Europe on the condition that Turkey prevent them from going to Greece and will accept them back if they do so.
Regardless of their legal status, migrants should be afforded some basic protections, especially given that they often are asylum seekers, refugees, children, or trafficking victims.
And, together with the Islamic Development Bank Group, the United Nations, and other donors, the World Bank has created a joint facility to assist the countries hardest hit by instability with concessional financing, which includes an Islamic-finance instrument for Lebanon and Jordan to help them bear the costs of supporting
refugees
from Syria.
For example, some 90% of Syrian
refugees
have access to smart phones, through which they could access financial services.
And Syria’s increasingly bloody civil war is no longer a domestic issue, given Iran’s direct support for the regime and the growing number of
refugees
fleeing to surrounding countries.
The type of migration that attracts the most attention is the plight of
refugees
from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa.
This summer, the UN Refugee Agency put the number of
refugees
who had fled Syria at four million, in addition to 7.6 million internally displaced people.
In the meantime, the flow of Syrian
refugees
to Europe has developed into one of the greatest challenges the European Union has ever faced.
France is more serious than ever about fighting ISIS, while Germany and other Europeans feel obliged to assist it – and to stem the flow of
refugees
emanating from the region.
Although figures do not convey the cruelty by all sides, it has become de rigueur to cite the numbers: more than 100,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees, and four million people internally displaced.
But a year ago, the figures were already dire: 60,000 dead, 700,000 international refugees, and two million internally displaced.
Most now are
refugees
in Jordan and Syria, and they are unlikely to be welcomed home anytime soon by the new Shiite elite running the country.
The flow of
refugees
to neighboring countries has taken on a dimension beyond any that I have previously encountered.
Last year, an appeal for aid for Syrian
refugees
raised only 54% of its goal.
Today, almost 90% of
refugees
are living in developing countries, up from 70% ten years ago.
With legal migration channels choked off, desperate
refugees
have been forced to put their lives in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
Addressing the challenge will require overhauling our current system and rethinking how we can help
refugees.
Emergency relief to
refugees
must be accompanied with far greater support for the communities that host them.
Where possible, local jobs must be created, for
refugees
and local populations.
Providing
refugees
with the opportunity to earn a livelihood would help break the vicious cycle of underfunded humanitarian appeals and help create and maintain the skills needed for eventual rebuilding back home.
We clearly have the technology, resources, and know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for
refugees.
In successive wars, Israel seized all the land allocated to Palestine, mainly the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza, now swarming with millions of Palestinian
refugees.
At the failed Camp David summit in 2000, Israeli negotiators suggested a $30 billion international fund that would make payments to genuine
refugees.
Now, populists blame her for not just refugees, but for terrorism, too.
The conflation of immigrants and
refugees
was probably not the result of malicious intent.
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