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Following the introduction of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy toward
refugees
last September, a raft of reports emerged offering economic and demographic arguments within which her decision could be framed.
But such arguments actually poisoned the idea of refugee protection: The focus on the potential economic role of
refugees
inadvertently reinforced the view that they were, in fact, economic migrants.
At a time of high long-term unemployment and heavy public-debt burdens, they declared that the
refugees
would take jobs from Europeans or, worse, drain European taxpayer-funded social benefits.
Some European populations, frustrated with the EU’s handling of past crises, had already begun to fall prey to nationalist sentiment; so it was not difficult for populists to portray the hundreds of thousands of
refugees
streaming into European countries as a new threat to national identity.
But what Europe actually faces is three distinct challenges: protecting refugees, as required by European and international law; developing an effective and sustainable immigration policy that will benefit the EU; and responding to the discontent of second- and third-generation immigrant communities in Europe.
In 1979, an international conference was held to respond to the refugee crisis that arose from the end of the Vietnam War and the mayhem of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia; over the next two years, more than 620,000
refugees
were resettled in 20 countries.
As long as the rest of the international community fails to fulfill its responsibilities toward the refugees, it will remain difficult to convince a skeptical European public to do so.
It has been said that differentiating between
refugees
and immigrants is code for excluding everyone.
If we are to meet our international obligations toward refugees, we need to know what those responsibilities are.
But, to ensure this, macro and structural economic policies that boost aggregate demand, job creation and growth, reduce income and wealth inequality, provide economic opportunity to the young, and integrate rather than reject
refugees
and economic migrants will be needed.
A No-Fly Zone for SyriaWASHINGTON, DC – A recent front-page photo in the New York Times of a boatload of Syrian
refugees
drifting on the Mediterranean Sea beneath an enormous setting sun could not have been more apt.
In a region where others create refugees, the Kurds provide a safe haven.
Israelis are struggling to comprehend why five million
refugees
and 200,000 deaths in Syria mean so much less to the Western conscience than the 2,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza.
Mainstream politicians, bowing to pressure from fear-mongering populists, are calling for tighter restrictions, and some countries are openly flouting their legal obligation and moral responsibility to provide protection to
refugees
fleeing conflict.
Mayors and local administrators are building social and physical infrastructure that supports the reception of migrants and
refugees
into local communities.
There are thousands more projects like these, helping migrants and
refugees
to build new lives in their new communities.
When the Pontifical Academy of Sciences announced that it would organize a summit on
refugees
and migrants later this year, it stressed that mayors “must be provided with the ability to meet the needs, accommodate, and regularize all types of migrants or refugees.”
In addition, there is rising mistrust of politicians who cannot fulfill promises to halt immigration, accompanied by perceptions of immigrants as law-breakers rather than enterprising people, and mistreatment of
refugees
aimed at deterring people who want to work from applying for asylum.
While innovation sometimes comes from brilliant individuals – 21 of Britain’s Nobel prizewinners were
refugees
– it generally comes from the synergy of talented people in close proximity.
Europe Sells OutBRUSSELS – Europe’s refugee crisis is far from solved, but there are signs that the agreement finalized by the European Union and Turkey on March 18 is reducing the flow of
refugees
and migrants from Turkey to Greece.
The flows of
refugees
on this route may well have been stemmed.
During a recent visit to Turkey, he asserted that the Turkish government is “the best example in the world” of how to treat
refugees.
To be sure, Turkey has taken more than its fair share of
refugees
from Syria and elsewhere.
Turkey is not a safe country for
refugees.
Indeed, there is growing evidence that it is pushing Syrian
refugees
back across the border.
In the worst-case scenario, Turkey’s economy will collapse, sending huge numbers of
refugees
– including Syrians and others currently in Turkey, as well as Turks themselves – to Western Europe.
If Turkey’s downward spiral generates a new wave of
refugees
bound for Europe, further destabilizing the European Union, all the better.
But since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her policy of Willkommenskultur (“welcoming culture”) and opened Germany’s doors to
refugees
fleeing the conflict in Syria, unease about resurgent anti-Semitism has been growing in the German establishment, and particularly in the Jewish community.
Americans know that a million
refugees
have fled Iraq; the Oscar-nominated documentary Five Broken Cameras and other media have shown how the United States contributes to the brutalization of Palestinians – a major driver of “jihad,” or what the US State Department calls “extremism”;US soldiers have repeatedly been implicated in war crimes; and Jeremy Scahill’s book Dirty Wars, which details targeted assassinations by the US around the world, has hit bookstores.
In other words, for refugees, whether to provide personal information, from religious beliefs to biometric data, can be a matter of life and death.
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