Jeff Crisp — Asylum Insight

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  • AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE : FAILING THE WORLD’S REFUGEES

    ‘Rohingya refugees stranded at sea’. ‘Italy braced for another migrant surge’. ‘Tourists say asylum seekers are spoiling their Greek holidays’. ‘Cambodia agrees to take refugees turned away from Australia’.

    In the past few weeks, our newspapers have been dominated by such headlines, each of them testifying to a displacement crisis of truly global dimensions. According to the United Nations, the number of people uprooted by persecution and armed conflict now exceeds 50 million, the largest number since the end of the Second World War. While the vast majority of refugees continue to flee to neighbouring states, a growing proportion make long, complex and usually arduous journeys from one country and continent to another, alongside migrants who are moving to improve their standard of living or rejoin family members.

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