It is interesting that the “moral insight” of refugee migration at the time that the Geneva Convention was signed is relevant, while the social, political and cultural actualities of “refugee” migration – and the fairly fixed definition of “refugee” itself – at that time are apparently irrelevant.
In 2021, 64% of asylum claimants in the EU were refused asylum, to be clear, they were refused asylum in all of its forms; refugee status, subsidiary protection, and humanitarian leave to remain. In 2020, 58% of asylum claimant in the EU were refused asylum in all of its forms and only 50% of those afford asylum i.e. 21%, were actually classified as refugees.
If the Guardian intends to argue from the “moral insight” of the Geneva Convention then let it accept that the conditions that led to that “moral insight” were markedly different.
The guardian is a big fan of bitching from afar about european migration, while rarely making equivalent statements about the us or Australia, and not putting nearly enough effort into trashing the paltry refugee protections offered by it’s home market the uk.
Fortress Europe is a nice soundbite but Priti Patel has created a fortress uk easily as harsh as Hungary or Poland once the geographical context is included
The Geneva convention wasn’t meant to be an immigration policy.
Criticize the methods while benefiting from it, if it didn’t happen they would cry the EU is letting all these migrant coming to cross the Channel.
Typical UK mentality.
Real compassion is making sure that people have civil rights and human rights, democracy, and control of their own communities, right where they were born and have always lived [ or lived as child]
That means not buying the goods of the war criminals.
But you will not see that in the monopoly IT / media.
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It is interesting that the “moral insight” of refugee migration at the time that the Geneva Convention was signed is relevant, while the social, political and cultural actualities of “refugee” migration – and the fairly fixed definition of “refugee” itself – at that time are apparently irrelevant.
In 2021, 64% of asylum claimants in the EU were refused asylum, to be clear, they were refused asylum in all of its forms; refugee status, subsidiary protection, and humanitarian leave to remain. In 2020, 58% of asylum claimant in the EU were refused asylum in all of its forms and only 50% of those afford asylum i.e. 21%, were actually classified as refugees.
If the Guardian intends to argue from the “moral insight” of the Geneva Convention then let it accept that the conditions that led to that “moral insight” were markedly different.
The guardian is a big fan of bitching from afar about european migration, while rarely making equivalent statements about the us or Australia, and not putting nearly enough effort into trashing the paltry refugee protections offered by it’s home market the uk.
Fortress Europe is a nice soundbite but Priti Patel has created a fortress uk easily as harsh as Hungary or Poland once the geographical context is included
The Geneva convention wasn’t meant to be an immigration policy.
Criticize the methods while benefiting from it, if it didn’t happen they would cry the EU is letting all these migrant coming to cross the Channel.
Typical UK mentality.
Real compassion is making sure that people have civil rights and human rights, democracy, and control of their own communities, right where they were born and have always lived [ or lived as child]
That means not buying the goods of the war criminals.
But you will not see that in the monopoly IT / media.
The Left abused it and imported millions.
No one to blame but themselves.
It will get worse, as they refuse to stop.
Let the fire burn.