Category: Migration

20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing

August 19, 2021

While most recent interest has tended to focus on the behavior of the Orbán government or its opponents in the EU, Hungary’s current moment in the spotlight seems to be mostly due to outsiders arguing over whether and how it might serve as either a model or cautionary tale. Unsurprisingly, this argument has mostly used Hungary as a proxy for domestic dramas. And unfortunately, it is likely that the spotlight will move on, with relatively little attention paid to many of the lessons the country actually can offer to Right, Left, and center.

https://quillette.com/2021/08/13/20-hungarian-lessons-the-west-is-still-missing/

Migration, Refugee Lessons and Resources

August 15, 2021
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Misc. Links

Refugee Processing Center

Great resource for data and research

http://ireports.wrapsnet.org/

UN HCR

Good general facts and figures about refugees

https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html

“Abdi and the Golden Ticket”

This American Life Podcast, “A story about someone who’s desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American. Abdi is a Somali refugee living in Kenya and gets the luckiest break of his life: he wins a lottery that puts him on a short list for a U.S. visa. This is his ticket out. But before he can cash in his golden ticket, the police start raiding his neighborhood, targeting refugees.”

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/560/abdi-and-the-golden-ticket

U.S. Sued by Its Iraqi Helpers Over Visa Delays

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sued-by-its-iraqi-helpers-over-visa-delays-1425960061

Mexican Opium Prices Plummet, Driving Poppy Farmers to Migrate

NY Times article about the drop in prices is leading poppy farmers to seek work in the United States and other places

Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route

August 15, 2021

The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe – risking death, capture and deportation.

If you were fleeing Syria for Europe, what choices would you make for you and your family? Take our journey to understand the real dilemmas the refugees face.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32057601

Where Will Everyone Go?

August 10, 2021

ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.

Scientists have learned to project such changes around the world with surprising precision, but — until recently — little has been known about the human consequences of those changes. As their land fails them, hundreds of millions of people from Central America to Sudan to the Mekong Delta will be forced to choose between flight or death. The result will almost certainly be the greatest wave of global migration the world has seen.

https://features.propublica.org/climate-migration/model-how-climate-refugees-move-across-continents/

Emigration Rises Along with Economic Development. Aid Agencies Should Face This, but Not Fear It

August 10, 2021

Within low-income countries, richer people are more likely to emigrate. And as low-income countries economically grow, people are more likely to emigrate.

But we shouldn’t use a fear of migration as a reason to keep poor countries poor. That would ignore the inherent value of poverty reduction, as well as harm donor countries’ own interests in a prosperous, healthy, and stable world. Rather, these facts matter because development policy that is not based on facts never works. Development assistance should engage with human mobility—not to deter it, but to shape it for mutual benefit.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/emigration-rises-along-economic-development-aid-agencies-should-face-not-fear-it

Border Insecurity: The Border Patrol’s sweeping powers inside the U.S. lack accountability and perpetuate racial profiling.

August 10, 2021

At dozens of internal checkpoints across the country, Border Patrol agents stop and question passing motorists on their citizenship. Elsewhere, officers engage in roving traffic stops aimed at interdicting illegal immigration inside the United States. Agents at checkpoints require neither a warrant nor individualized suspicion to stop passing motorists and inquire about the occupants’ citizenship, or to inspect private lands within twenty-five miles of the border. Taken together, these “defense in depth” measures amount to an extraordinarily expansive law enforcement effort carried deep into the U.S. interior.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/border-insecurity