If you look at actual flow numbers and match them to (interior, distributed) availability of potential humanitarian relief loci, problem is not as big as demagogues pretend. It is artificially inflated due to political theater and lousy centralized security-theater logistics.
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Half of American science/technology leadership in the last century has been due to refugee-turned-swarm-talent flows. Like Hungarian mathematicians around WW2. We just need to scale up, globalize, and democratize the process.
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Solving for pack-integrity at city level rather than for national identity integrity at borders also is the right resolution for harmonious cultural integration. You get (eventually) integrates Syrian families rather than ghettoes ripe for resentment and radicalization.
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Keep families, friend groups and coffee-clubs of Hungarian mathematicians intact. Discourage tribes from forming or hardening their cultural boundaries via migration through hostile territories that view them as faceless, threatening invading masses. Personalize to humanize.
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The “caravan” is presented as an invading army of orcs from Mordor. Viewed at right resolution it’s just a few hundred families that want to stay together and could easily be distributed across ~100 cities, all of which would have kindness/capacity to handle 10 families apiece
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IoM, properly designed, could also probably handle domestic homelessness etc. too much better. Anyway hope that’s some good food for thought.
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