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Experts say better response needed to the ongoing migration crisis
euronews (in English)
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22/09/2023
Following a surge in people arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa by boat, experts say a better response is needed to the ongoing migration crisis.
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These are the images broadcast around the world in recent weeks.
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Residents of Lampedusa protesting against the massive influx of migrants to the small
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Italian island in the middle of the Mediterranean.
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But is it a fair representation?
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Some organizations working with migrants on the island disagree.
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"The response of the people of Lampedusa was an immediate solidarity that responded to the
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needs of the people who were around.
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As soon as they arrived, they were forced to stay in an environment like that of the
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Oxford or even outside the environment of that of the Oxford, constituted by very, very
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precarious material situations."
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Following record arrivals on the island last week, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin
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said France would not welcome the new migrants but would assist in returning people home.
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Experts say, however, that this may not be feasible.
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"Legally speaking, it's most likely unlikely that that could be done, unless there are
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specific agreements that France has been making with those particular countries.
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Unless there are standards, informal processes for returning people that should have the
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highest human rights standards as well."
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But contrary to what many believe, migrants arriving in Europe are in fact just a small
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fraction of the number of people leaving their countries.
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"People are going to continue leaving their home.
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What we also need to understand is most people do not come to Europe.
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Most people go to the neighboring country.
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A few of them come to Europe.
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And so what we need to think as Europeans is how we better organize a system when people
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get to European shores so that we avoid the kind of political crisis, constant political
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crisis that we keep seeing."
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