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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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  Refuge : Transforming a Broken Refugee System
  Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. As neighbouring countries continue to bear the brunt of the Syrian catastrophe, European governments have enacted a series of ill-considered gestures, from shutting their borders to welcoming refugees without a plan for their safe passage or integration upon arrival. With a deepening crisis and a xenophobic backlash in Europe, it is time for a new vision for refuge.
  Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in the past few years, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier show that this crisis offers an opportunity for reform if international policy-makers focus on delivering humane, effective and sustainable outcomes - both for Europe and for countries that border conflict zones. Refugees need more than simply food, tents and blankets, and research demonstrates that they can offer tangible economic benefits to their adopted countries if given the right to work and education.
  An urgent and necessary work, Refuge sets out an alternative vision that can empower refugees to help themselves, contribute to their host societies, and even rebuild their countries of origin.
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  ▻https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/300094/refuge
  
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Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here’s how we can fix it
A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and “our response, frankly, has been pathetic.” Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps, urban poverty and dangerous illegal journeys to safety. In this insightful talk, he offers four ways to change the way we treat refugees, so they can make an immediate contribution to their new homes. “There’s nothing inevitable about refugees being a cost,” Betts says. “They’re human beings with skills, talents, aspirations, with the ability to make contributions — if we let them.”
▻https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_betts_our_refugee_system_is_failing_here_s_how_we_can_fix_it
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  "Parfois, j’ai honte d’être un Européen. L’année dernière, plus d’un million de personnes ayant besoin d’aide sont arrivées en Europe. Et notre réponse a été franchement pathétique. Il y a tellement de contradictions. Nous pleurons la mort tragique d’Aylan Kurdi, et pourtant, depuis, plus de 200 enfants se sont noyés en Méditerranée. Des traités internationaux reconnaissent que les réfugiés sont une responsabilité collective, et pourtant nous acceptons que le petit Liban accueille plus de Syriens que toute l’Europe unie. Nous nous lamentons sur l’existence des passeurs, pourtant nous en faisons la seule route viable pour chercher l’asile en Europe. Il nous manque la main-d’oeuvre, pourtant nous empêchons les personnes correspondant à nos besoins économiques et démographiques de venir en Europe. Nous proclamons nos valeurs libérales en opposition à l’Islam fondamentaliste, pourtant nous avons des politiques de répression qui arrêtent les demandeurs d’asile mineurs, qui séparent les enfants de leur famille et qui saisissent les biens des réfugiés. Que faisons-nous ? Comment en sommes-nous arrivés là, à ce que nous adoptions une réponse si inhumaine à une crise humanitaire ? Je ne crois pas que ça soit dû à un désintérêt, tout de moins je ne veux pas le croire. Je crois que c’est parce que nos politiciens n’ont pas de vision, qu’ils ne savent pas adapter les règles internationales de l’asile à la mondialisation.
  Je veux prendre du recul et poser deux questions fondamentales :
  Premièrement, pourquoi est-ce que le système actuel ne fonctionne-t-il pas ?
  Deuxièmement, comment pouvons-nous y remédier ?
  
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The EU is using smuggling as a red herring in the absence of meaningful, viable policies | Alexander Betts
Today on BBC News, the RSC Director, Professor #Alexander_Betts, spoke of his lack of surprise at the failure of #Operation_Sophia, the EU’s naval operation to stop people smugglers in the Mediterranean. He comments that, “Militarised responses to smuggling tend not to work. What politicians have failed to recognise for a long time is that smuggling doesn’t cause migration, it responds to an underlying demand to migrate, and until we address the underlying reasons why desperate and vulnerable people are coming to Europe, attacking smugglers won’t work by itself. All it will do is increase the price for those desperate people to cross, and lead to ever more dangerous journeys.”
▻http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-eu-is-using-smuggling-as-a-red-herring-in-the-absence-of-meaningful-vi
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  Council conclusions on #EUNAVFOR_MED operation Sophia
  Recalling its conclusions on Libya of 18 April and also in the light of the ministerial meeting on Libya in Vienna on 16 May, the Council underlines the need to enhance the capacity of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia to disrupt the business model of human smugglers and trafficking networks and to contribute to broader security in support of the legitimate Libyan authorities. In this regard, the Council welcomes the expressed readiness of the President of the Presidency Council of the Government of National Accord, Mr Serraj, to cooperate with the EU on the basis of these conclusions.
  ▻http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/05/23-fac-eunavfor-sophia
  
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  EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia: mandate extended by one year, two new tasks added
  On 20 June 2016, the Council extended until 27 July 2017 the mandate of the EUNAFOR MED Operation Sophia, the EU naval operation to disrupt the business model of human smugglers and traffickers in the Southern Central Mediterranean. The Council also reinforced the operation’s mandate by adding two supporting tasks: training of the Libyan coastguards and navy and contributing to the implementation of the UN arms embargo on the high seas off the coast of Libya.
  ▻http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/06/20-fac-eunavfor-med-sophia
  
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