Migrant Crisis: What Else Could Europe Try?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Tens of thousands of migrants continue to queue at the borders of the European Union in search of a better life. Their journeys are often hazardous and thousands have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Italy or Greece. Attempts to share the burden among EU member states have been dogged by internal politics. And Europe’s actions so far have focussed on deterrence despite little evidence that such a strategy will work. So, in this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking what else Europe could try – and whether there are examples from other places, and other times, from which the EU’s leaders could learn. We look at the 1980s resettlement process in response to the Vietnamese “boat people” crisis; we examine Australia’s offshore processing of migrants; and we ask whether focussing on the “front line”, helping those countries migrants are leaving, is a realistic option.
Presenter: Ruth Alexander
(Photo: Young migrant at Psalidi on Kos, Credit: Press Association Wires)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC World Service, this is Ruth Alexander with the inquiry. |
| 0:04.0 | This week, what else could Europe try to deal with its migration crisis. |
| 0:15.0 | Migrants are headline news. |
| 0:18.0 | New strategy of immigrants in the Mediterranean. |
| 0:21.0 | When people are more immigrant in the Mediterranean. |
| 0:24.8 | In Italy, a boat lost in the Mediterranean and 40 people drowned. |
| 0:28.4 | Bundles |
| 0:29.9 | Kansl de Merkla up the rights of arrivals this year are breaking all records. |
| 0:40.0 | Just now you can record among one Samaborne only so on flicting at this. In Sweden the authorities are dealing with an unprecedented number of unacompanyed children. |
| 0:45.0 | In Sweden, the authorities are dealing with an unprecedented number of unaccompanied children. In Hungary, they're building a fence |
| 0:55.0 | in Hungary, they're building a fence to keep immigrants out. |
| 1:00.0 | And in Britain... |
| 1:02.0 | The Calais conundrum, how to keep Britain's border with France open to the free |
| 1:06.1 | flow of traffic, but not to the free flow of migrants. |
| 1:11.5 | A hundred thousand migrants were recorded arriving in the European Union in July, |
| 1:16.0 | three times more than in July last year. |
| 1:19.0 | Numbers like this haven't been seen in more than 20 years. They're arriving in greatest numbers from Syria, |
| 1:25.9 | Afghanistan, Eritrea and Nigeria, but also from Kosovo, Pakistan Gambia, Mali and |
| 1:31.8 | beyond, seeking asylum or work. |
| 1:34.7 | Europe has been struggling to cope. |
| 1:37.7 | So our inquiry this week is looking for new solutions to what's been called a migration crisis. |
| 1:45.0 | What else could Europe try? |
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