What Next: Europe’s Refugee Hypocrisy

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

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As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee to safety in neighboring countries and beyond, the UN says this may become Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century. But it’s hard not to notice the stark difference between how the EU is welcoming Ukrainian refugees versus the non-European refugees who came before them. Guest: Serena Parekh, professor at Northeastern University in Boston and the director of its politics, philosophy and economics program. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	When I think about Ukrainian refugees right now, I think about these pictures of scene,
0:40.0	of the roads leading out of the country.
0:42.0	They've been jam-packed.
0:44.0	Some people have simply ditched their vehicles on the side of the road
0:47.0	and walked into countries like Poland or Hungary with their rolling bags bumping behind them.
0:54.0	According to the UN, 870,000 people have fled.
0:59.0	In under a week.
1:01.0	Yeah, and the UN saying that it's going to surpass a million within days.
1:11.0	I called up Serena Parick because she studies refugees at Northeastern University.
1:16.0	She said, looking at pictures like this, it's hard not to think back to Europe's last refugee crisis.
1:23.0	If you think back to 2015 and the Syrian refugees that were arriving in Italy and Greece that summer,
1:30.0	this week is 10 times higher rate of refugees leaving the country than at the highest point of that crisis.
1:38.0	And that felt overwhelming.
1:40.0	We had never seen such huge numbers.
1:42.0	How could we possibly absorb this many people?
1:45.0	That was the rhetoric at the time at least.
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