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Australian Immigration Crisis Analysis

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Quoting The Globe, “Canada is that increasingly rare exception – a country in which public support for immigration is strong”. Yet the newspaper goes on to say that this point of view may arise from a general understanding that distance from Syria -the troubled nation from where the refugees stem – and the Canadian points system for legal immigration may be the reasons for the rosy view among the general public.
The paper goes on to say that the European crisis is because of the large numbers of refugees that are overwhelming the local European populations; and that ‘Countries that can’t control their borders always face a backlash’.
There is a comparison with Australia, since Canada and Australia are the modern world’s most successful immigration …show more content…

European solidarity weakens further as divisions grow between countries over border control and refugee quotas. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees reported on Tuesday that about 130,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean in the first two months of this year, more than the total in the first half of 2015. Winter and high seas have not stopped them, and when the weather gets better there are almost certainly going to be even more on the move.
The numbers involved are huge and the resistance in Europe to taking so many is serious and becoming more entrenched. The answer, on paper, is to share the burden fairly between European countries, on the one hand, and between Europe and the region from which most refugees come, on the other. The first difficulty is that the more generous countries, which also happen to be those that are the preferred migrant destinations, soon felt overwhelmed. They began to impose some controls.
The second difficulty is that European countries, and other wealthy states, have been almost criminally lackadaisical in providing the help and money they solemnly promised to countries neighboring Syria – countries that have taken far more refugees than …show more content…

Germany’s burden-sharing thesis is defective, so is the argument put forward by leaders like David Cameron who say the only real solution is to end the Syrian war.
The difficult conclusion must be that neither burden-sharing nor diplomacy will end this crisis, that migrants will continue to come in very substantial numbers, and Europe will continue to blunder along, torn between concern about their suffering and fears about a future different from the one we had until now imagined. overcrowded refugee centers and local authorities and police stretched to their

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