Reforming refuge
The struggle to accommodate the world’s refugees raises a wider question: do states have an absolute right to control borders?
In their new book Refuge: #Transforming_a_Broken_Refugee_System, #Alexander_Betts and #Paul_Collier argue that the current regime of international refugee protection serves most refugees poorly and should be rethought to enable them to escape their current limbo. It is hard to disagree with their claim that our focus is distorted and that better solutions are needed. What is worrying about the book is that its positive message is accompanied by an attack on the existing refugee protection framework that threatens to undermine wealthy states’ already meagre commitment to refugees. Betts and Collier intermingle a set of positive policy proposals around forced migration with often ill-considered arguments concerning immigration generally, perhaps reflecting the different agendas of the authors: Betts is a refugee studies scholar and Collier a development economist with a history of anti-immigration polemic.
▻https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5224/reforming-refuge
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