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Migration, money, markets and morality
Harris, Phil
Harris, Phil
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2015-11-03
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Editorial Over the last year, the pressure of economic migration
and vast numbers of people on the move
who have been destabilised by conflict, instability
and deprivation has impacted dramatically upon
Europe and particularly the European Union (EU).
Pictures of drowned children washed up on
beaches, boat swampings, human flotsam, dead
bodies of those suffocated and rotting in trucks
of those who died being smuggled into the EU
from suffocation and heat exhaustion. These are
not the pictures of a civilised society and show
the gang masters, wretches and gangsters of
society taking advantage of human desperation.
A coherent policy on economic migrants and political
asylum seekers for the multi-state union has
shown that one policy fitting all has buckled,
broke and does not work. One has to be focused
on supporting the weak and the vulnerable
and giving clear guidelines on the numbers and
quality of migrants that are needed in an economy.
This works well in Australia, Canada and New
Zealand and should be adopted more widely
across the EU.
Conflict and instability in the Middle East is fuelling
much of this migration and the search for
safety by asylum seekers. The instability of Africa
and the North Coast of Africa is not helping.
Long-term answers and care for immediate needs
must be the answer. Europe like America has
benefitted from economic migration and the wonderful
contributions that asylum seekers and the
persecuted have made in the past. We must make
policy for refugees and migrants a public affairs
and policy priority.
This is a general issue of the journal and shows
the breadth of thinking across the discipline.
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Harris, P. (2015). Migration, money, markets and morality. Journal of Public Affairs, 15(4), 331-333. doi: 10.1002/pa.1591
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Harris, P. (2015). Migration, money, markets and morality. Journal of Public Affairs, 15(4), 331-333 , which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1002/pa.1591. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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1479-1854