Early this week, the Antiplanner listened to a presentation in Greece about the Syrian refugee crisis. The presenter noted that almost all members of the European Union had signed the Dublin agreement defining how countries should treat refugees. A major exception, however, was Turkey, which treated people fleeing Syria as potential immigrants rather than refugees. The speaker made it sound as though Turkey was heartless and uncaring about refugee problems.
Arda Akçiçek, a researcher at Istanbul’s Medipol University and activist with the Association for Liberal Thinking, has a very different view: by treating Syrians as immigrants rather than refugees, Turkey is treating them as potential economic contributors rather than likely recipients of welfare.
Some sheer numbers support this viewpoint. Germany has accepted something like 300,000 to 360,000 refugees, more than any other European nation under the Dublin agreement. The country has allocated more than $19 billion to refugees for 2016 alone, or roughly $55,000 per refugee.
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Immigration hasn’t been without strain. The immigrants have taken some jobs that would otherwise have been held by natives of Turkey. By working for lower pay, however, they have reduced consumer prices by around 2.5 percent. More importantly, says Akçiçek, Turkey has avoided the “social disorder that has led to drastic counter-measures elsewhere.”
I asked Akçiçek whether the difference between Turkey and other European nations was one of religion: the Syrians and Turks are both Muslim nations, while most of the rest of Europe is Christian. He pointed out that, after World War II, Germany accepted three million Turkish refugees from the war whose descendants live peacefully in Germany today.
Akçiçek’s research underscores my conclusion that problems other countries are having with refugees are merely symptoms of deeper problems with those nations’ regulatory and welfare systems. Those problems should be corrected even if there were no refugees. Turkey’s relative success in handling the refugee crisis may give other countries an incentive to fix those problems now.
Brilliant…. especially if true.
“Association for Liberal Thinking” don’t the words “Liberal” and “Conservative” have opposite meanings in Europe than in the United States?
As George Friedman rightly points out, the EU does _NOT_ have a migrant crisis; it has a policy crisis. It’s policy crisis is that it’s been unable to successfully craft a successful policy to address the issue.
The financial issues of the PIGS ( Portugal Ireland Greece Spain ) may heavily strained the EU as an institution. We may soon be looking back to this wave of migration and recognizing it as the straw that broke the EU’s back.
As for the claims that Europe can’t handle the numbers, note that 1 in 5 Canadians are foreign born. The major friction in Canada today is not due to that but the Feds relying on Alberta to pay the country’s bills.
The countries on the EU peninsula can handle a lot more migrants than they have today and do just fine. The problem is, as been pointed out by Mr. O’Toole and others before, their social and govermental institutions aren’t crafted to handle them.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-population-soars-to-6-8-million-1.1308179
The new survey of almost three million people shows that Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents, or 20.6 per cent of the population, compared with 19.8 per cent in 2006, and the highest in the G8 group of rich countries.
Logically, wouldn’t a situation where a very wealthy country can’t reproduce enough to even sustain the population call for a smarter policy than “let’s import a lot of immigrants who breed prolifically”.
Canada is very picky on who they let into the country, resulting in the majority of immigrants originating from Asia instead of the Americas. Asian immigrants use fewer welfare benefits after they arrive and quickly become net taxpayers. Even with immigration Canada–like Australia–remains very, very white in comparison to the US.
Mexico is currently adopting a points-based immigration system like Canada’s and Australia’s. It would make sense for the US to adopt a similar policy or even form a North American immigration pact with those two countries. Canada has the natural advantage of cold weather keeping illegal immigration down, Australia oceans. Even if the US adopted a points-based immigration system it would still need a way to keep high-cost illegal immigrants out, hence the popularity of a wall.
Logically, wouldn’t a situation where a very wealthy country can’t reproduce enough to even sustain the population call for a smarter policy than “let’s import a lot of immigrants who breed prolifically”.
It’s not about smart policy, it’s about correctness. Many Western European countries now have permanently low birth rates, especially among the native-born population. But allowing mass, unchecked immigration isn’t solely a response to population decline. In Germany’s case, it’s Merkel’s way of apologizing for World War II and trying to make amends on behalf of her fellow countrymen, many of whom she’s learning do not share the same view. In Sweden, it’s about promoting an insane, far-left, multiculturalist agenda. And many Swedes are afraid to publicly criticize this agenda for fear that they will be branded racists, especially by Sweden’s government-funded media. There is now, however, rising dissent in the form of the increasing popularity of the Sweden Democrats.
Most of Canada’s immigrants are NOT “white”, they’re from China, India and the Philippines.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo24a-eng.htm
I didn’t say they were, PK. This is what I wrote:
…which agrees with the excellent table you provided in the link.
But Canada remains very, very white. The Orwellian “visible minority” (Does that mean if a man is wearing lederhosen he’s a visible minority? How ’bout a kilt? A beret?) notwithstanding, Canada is at least 80% white and a paltry 2%–3% black, compared to the US @ 63%/12%. In that respect Canada is very much like Australia and Europe: It’s easy to get along— it’s easy to come to a consensus on government policy—when the vast majority of people look, talk, and probably even think exactly the same.
Not so easy in the extremely racially diverse United States. Just sayin’.
Let’s just put them in internment camps already.
A lot of the discussion about refugees is clouded by the perception of who is coming into Europe. Who is getting the benefit of the $55,000.00/per refugee paid expended by Germany?
While the MSM shows photos of elderly women and small children, the vast majority of the refugees are men aged 16-30. They have left their elderly, their women and children behind to suffer their fate. Nice guys!
As a result, Europe has seen a huge increase in crimes of violence, especially rape, as bands of young, men roam looking for females (as theirs are back home). By any measure, these are not refugees, they are invaders.