They keep coming, not migrants but refugees, more or less welcomed.
There are many European depressed villages with a decreasing population which
are facing both double aspects of those new arrivals: stop population losses
but also try to figure out a way to ensure them a job, to avoid falling into
perpetual poverty. So far we’ve struggled to deliver on both goals.
Consequently some of them are trying more or less legally to pick up again and
move into other cities where, again, are more or less welcomed.
The only common denominator is that they don’t come to join family
members, but who instead arrive knowing no one. I really can’t think about their
religion: who cares? I feel so pity for them, they’re just human beings to me.
A shabby building here is surely so much better than tents elsewhere like
animals. But a human being has higher needs.
So-called “free cases” are the most difficult. People who come alone
often find challenging to get a job and a permanent, affordable place to live
on their own exactly because they don’t have the same connections others may
have. Some live with roommates or meet others when learning the language
or receiving services with their resettlement agency. So looking for jobs could
go on for years. Having children or a spouse significantly boosts the amount of
money a refugee can receive. That’s the whole problem, they really need to get
to work as soon as possible (also to send money back home), but seldomly do.
Language is of course another problem faced in finding works, often the key for
everything else. The main reason refugees appear to move is because they can’t
find a job and so on and on, villages to cities. Cities to villages.
They’re just searching for a better life. I don’t pretend to offer easy
solutions, but at least we shouldn’t be afraid of them, wherefore they are the
ones afraid of us. Why should they be afraid of us? Because of egoism. Because
of our populism: what have we become?!
Demagogic movements are
increasing with ideas that would be disastrous if implemented. Greece was an
example, but their politicians had to change directions and very quickly. We
want but we don’t give, we are rich but we don’t want to share (at least not as
we should). But we have all been migrants once, have we already forgotten it?
Populism has found fertile ground in the Eurozone because of two main crisis:
financial’ and refugees’.Leadership was needed but
lacking, with the exception of Angela Merkel. Though she failed to explain to
her people the benefits of the common policy. It can all be verified looking at
Cameron’s policy: a concentrate of all the above mistakes. So, do we ever
learn?
We obviously need a turn. Maybe Europe’s problems need a global solution, maybe. I have my view: the E.U. is made of many Countries, in essence, separate Countries. This also explain Europe’s schizophrenic response to the refugees crisis. Now, compare this crisis to the financial crisis which has been solved (is being solved, actually). Why was that possible? Unity! A common response orchestrated by the ECB.
When the interests are not common we lack unity and so the solution must be found elsewhere. Not imposed, or we risk the disintegration: we already have the first very clear signs (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, Austria). The alternative is that not only the people but politicians in first place have to be an example of this unity. Impossible?! Not at all….they just need courage!
Courage! The opposite of Cameron’s policy is Renzi’s policy in Italy. For one time, just one, an Italian politician is showing the way. And his people are following. And…just maybe, there is another partial “solution”, which should work hand in hand. Let me explain.
Many of them are now in
supposedly temporary camps unable to leave, in a sort of limbo. This extends to
all migrants/refugees, generally speaking. It wasn’t supposed to be this way,
it wasn’t supposed to be a durable solution. Only three rules allow them to
remain: until they return to their Country of origin, until are integrated into
the host Country or they are to be offered a new resettlement to a third
Country.
Protracted situations creating protracted refugees because none of the above three rules will ever materialize, as rich nations are accepting fewer and fewer of them. Contradictions start to arise as these camps become “cities” with cinemas, irregular elections, any kind of goods smuggled in, schools, even football leagues: social life continues, so to speak. The paradox is that they aren’t allowed to work.
The world is in turmoil and whole generations are growing up in camps. One example for all is the Gaza strip camp founded in 1948 and is still there: 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes to make space for Israelis. Then ask yourselves why they are constantly angry: 2,000,000 descendants are forced to stay there. Thank you Israel!
These permanent limbos are growing because wars are growing. A number?! 60,000,000 refugees worldwide! This is the general somber picture and no one wants to admit it. Not the Countries that must host them nor The United Nations which must pay for them. Potentially they’ll never stop increasing: this could be the real reason why Europe doesn’t accept them. It’s a potentially endless number. But things are changing and washing up on Europe’s beaches. Literally.
At least a partial solution would be to allow refugees themselves to invest in their camps in any possible way, to build a future within these pseudo-cities/pseudo-legal “countries” inside Countries, therefore becoming international zones trading with the rest of the world and building a future on their own.
They should be allowed to become economically viable and autonomous: people must belong somewhere! WE, Western Countries, have created the root of this problem. Now we must at least contribute to find a solution.
…..Always humble,
We obviously need a turn. Maybe Europe’s problems need a global solution, maybe. I have my view: the E.U. is made of many Countries, in essence, separate Countries. This also explain Europe’s schizophrenic response to the refugees crisis. Now, compare this crisis to the financial crisis which has been solved (is being solved, actually). Why was that possible? Unity! A common response orchestrated by the ECB.
When the interests are not common we lack unity and so the solution must be found elsewhere. Not imposed, or we risk the disintegration: we already have the first very clear signs (e.g. Sweden, Denmark, Austria). The alternative is that not only the people but politicians in first place have to be an example of this unity. Impossible?! Not at all….they just need courage!
Courage! The opposite of Cameron’s policy is Renzi’s policy in Italy. For one time, just one, an Italian politician is showing the way. And his people are following. And…just maybe, there is another partial “solution”, which should work hand in hand. Let me explain.
Protracted situations creating protracted refugees because none of the above three rules will ever materialize, as rich nations are accepting fewer and fewer of them. Contradictions start to arise as these camps become “cities” with cinemas, irregular elections, any kind of goods smuggled in, schools, even football leagues: social life continues, so to speak. The paradox is that they aren’t allowed to work.
The world is in turmoil and whole generations are growing up in camps. One example for all is the Gaza strip camp founded in 1948 and is still there: 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes to make space for Israelis. Then ask yourselves why they are constantly angry: 2,000,000 descendants are forced to stay there. Thank you Israel!
These permanent limbos are growing because wars are growing. A number?! 60,000,000 refugees worldwide! This is the general somber picture and no one wants to admit it. Not the Countries that must host them nor The United Nations which must pay for them. Potentially they’ll never stop increasing: this could be the real reason why Europe doesn’t accept them. It’s a potentially endless number. But things are changing and washing up on Europe’s beaches. Literally.
At least a partial solution would be to allow refugees themselves to invest in their camps in any possible way, to build a future within these pseudo-cities/pseudo-legal “countries” inside Countries, therefore becoming international zones trading with the rest of the world and building a future on their own.
They should be allowed to become economically viable and autonomous: people must belong somewhere! WE, Western Countries, have created the root of this problem. Now we must at least contribute to find a solution.
…..Always humble,
