Well, good to see that UN agencies are belatedly rejecting the crisis narrative. About time too.https://twitter.com/UNmigration/status/1014562061056176128 …
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We have been saying this all along. How about this from Feb 2015?https://weblog.iom.int/our-sea
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And how about this from January 2017: Bill Swing writes in The Guardian, saying that "the world needs a new strategy to tackle the migration crisis."
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Nowhere in the body of the article is migration crisis mentioned. The focus is the number of migrants dying around the world, which constitutes a different kind of crisis.
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More directly, from Jan 2016: "While the numbers arriving in Europe increased in 2015 and pressures in some spots have ignited tensions and drawn media attention, this is not a crisis beyond the capability of Europe to manage together as a Union..." http://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/destination-europe/swing.pdf …
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This from Feb 2018: "IOM chief: There is no migration crisis but a political emergency" https://www.euractiv.com/section/development-policy/interview/mon-iom-chief-there-is-no-migration-crisis-but-a-political-emergency/ …
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June 2017: "Even the term “crisis” has been unfairly pinned on a situation where migrants and refugees are by their very numbers considered a threat, a problem, or a burden. This is misleading and dangerous..."https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/opinion/migration-a-safe-investment-in-humanity/ …
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