The number of refugees and displaced people increase day by day. Even some countries open the borders, the humanity could not find a solution to decrease this issue. What should have be done in terms of policy?
Dear Mehmet, I am not sure about the expectation you may have with your question, because it is too broaden, too generic. But considering you are from Turkey (I suppose that, coorrect me if I am wrong), the country that have more refugees in the world (in absolut terms) I understand that you may be concerned about one important dimension of international refugee policy, which is "burden sharing", provisioned in the Geneva Convention, 1951. One of the responsibilities that each state have, and all states have, is to receive refugees. Beacuse some do not receive and others receive few, the concentration of refugees in some countries produces huge problems not only for those countries but for the refugees themselves. So, I would stress the responsibility of states to receive refugees, by settlement and resettlement.
Very well said Sir. And now there are close to 20 Thousand refugees at the EU -Turkey border waiting to pass
Governments' responsibilities is not to interfere in other countries for economic gain or imperial agendas and to own up to their colonial histories that continue to create conditions leading to refugee flight elsewhere. Some countries have a taste for destabilizing other regions and then cutting refugee admission numbers, walking away from responsibility their actions created elsewhere. The international community should focus on prevention of conflicts and develop a system where those who contribute to refugee flight (historically or currently) admit higher numbers of refugees from that region.
Dear Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes, could you please be more specific? Who are these governments interfere in other countries for economic gain? And what do they get in return destabilizing other regions? Chaos? Blood? More power? Oil?
Each conflict has a unique history. We need to trace who is contributing to circumstances leading to refugee flight in each particular area. When looking closely at a specific conflict, here are some example questions to ask:
-- Which foreign governments supported the opposite sides of an ongoing conflict? How? Why? How did that impact the length/scope of the conflict? Was it a proxy war? What was its purpose?
-- Which foreign government(s) played a historical role in cultural, racial, and/or political tensions in the region? For example, did one foreign government push a particular religion/language/political regime in a part of the area while the second foreign government was stimulating a different religion/language/political regime in the other part of the region? Why? How did that contribute to the current internal tensions in the region?
-- Who were the bystander foreign governments who could have facilitated peace in the area, but instead watched from afar?
-- Which foreign government started a war on foreign soil? Why?
The most important work is paying the moral debt these foreign governments owe to the destabilized region and its people who left (refugees and asylum seekers). How many refugees from the destabilized area have the morally-obliged foreign governments taken in? How have they repaired damages they created in the region?
Hope this helps! Good luck.
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