Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?
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Publisher Description
Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority.
But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.
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In her slim but weighty treatise on the nature of "distress migration," in which people flee "political instability and state failure," Harvard School of Public Health professor Bhabha passionately argues that developed nations are morally obligated to address the migration spurred by the Syrian Civil War. The author builds her case for action on a foundation of history and philosophy. She begins by arguing that the mass migration of Syrian refugees is neither a crisis nor historically unique. Next, she probes the gap between the outcry about migrants' plight that followed the 2015 publication of a photo of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy and the lack of action taken by countries founded on tenets of the three Abrahamic religions, all of which advocate helping those in need. She brings in arguments for a duty of care from such philosophers as Kant, Arendt, and Keyes, giving particular emphasis to the Kantian notion of shared human destiny. In addition to advocating the goals of avoiding conflict and housing more refugees, Bhabha calls for countries to promote fixes to employment programs and education to give refugees a chance at a future. This book is an insightful and passionate argument for finding a humane resolution to the problems that cause and attend distress migration
