Europe's refugee crisis, explained (Vox)
Quite long, with decent charts and graphics
A Syrian toddler, dead on a Turkish beach, after the boat in which his family was attempting to flee to Europe capsized at sea. Desperate families crowding a Hungarian train station, their children sleeping on floors and sidewalks, fearing Hungary will intern them in sinister-sounding "camps." Greek tourism towns filling with tents and with humanitarian workers, to accommodate the rickety boats of refugees that arrive daily at the shores.
Today, more than 19 million people have been forced to flee their home countries because of war, persecution, and oppression, and every day an estimated 42,500 more join them. Many, though far from all, of them head for Europe, which is why the crisis there can appear most acute.
There are two layers to this crisis and why it has grown so dire. The first is the sometimes-overlapping web of wars and crises that has forced millions of people from their homes in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere — and that has opened, ever-so-slightly, a previously closed route to Europe.
The second, and less-discussed, is the increasingly anti-refugee politics in Western and other wealthy countries that are best suited to take them. People in those countries, insecure and fearful over the effects of immigration, preoccupied with vague but long-held ideas about national identity, are driving nativist, populist politics, and thus policies that contribute to the crisis.
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Canada is in recession and the UK is headed into recession also.
Here's some migrant-related URLs I grabbed today:
(migrants) ## http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/u2-use-concert-to-call-for-leadership-over-refugee-crisis
--> http://www.juancole.com/2015/09/european-countries-refugees.html
--> http://www.dw.com/en/refugee-crisis-to-cost-germany-10-billion-euros/a-18696346
--> http://www.dw.com/en/australia-pledges-to-take-in-more-syrian-refugees/a-18696471
--> http://www.dw.com/en/why-the-refugee-crisis-calls-for-imaginative-urban-planning/a-18679949
--> http://www.dw.com/en/poland-braces-for-ukrainian-refugees/av-18692361
--> (Migrants welcomed with applause in Germany) http://www.france24.com/en/20150906-germany-thousands-migrants-arrive
--> http://www.france24.com/en/20150905-pictures-thousands-show-support-migrants-paris-rally
--> http://www.france24.com/en/20150904-video-syrian-refugees-border-camps-lebanon-sights-europe
--> http://www.france24.com/en/20150904-uk-accept-thousands-more-syrian-refugees-cameron-says
--> (not so) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/05/new-zealand-to-take-100-syrian-refugees-says-united-nations
dubya and dickie got their war on Iraq thanks to those lovely folks at the CIA. I was surprised by Colin Powell's aluminum tubes presentation to the UN, as well as the torture program set up by the CIA. I'm also surprised that dubya put the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and occupations on the National Credit card.
J. Paul Bremmer set the stage for ISIS when he fired all the Sunnis from the Iraqi military.
