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Btw the center of gravity of the problem is developing world to developing world (eg Myanmar-> Bangladesh), where most refugee flows already happen, not developing to developed, which should happen more, but is unlikely to. So IoM should be designed for developing-to-developing.
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City-to-city migration protocol also seamlessly handles domestic migration and displacement, and chronic as well as acute stressors. Basically whole problem and solution needs to be moved down 2 levels of political aggregation to cities, which is where the provisioning happens.
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IoM governance would include a macro (nation level) refugee-credit type market similar to carbon credit, based on globally shared responsibility for creating refugees. And an individual-level market mechanism like a “migrantcoin” currency to bookkeep detailed resource flows.
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Crucial design factor: cities (like Utica, NY) would opt-in to IoM, providing capacity in return for insuring own needs for displacement insurance and share of aid monies. Of course vast disparities in exposures to risks so refugee credit scheme will be tricky to design.
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Nation-level policing of borders would still matter, but only at the level of dealing with security threats. Cities would issue migration “tickets” based on capacity, not nations. But nations would vet for *real* security threats at borders. That would be much smaller, like 5%.
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Note, much of this merely formalizes what already happens informally. Migrants don’t vaguely move from country to country, they move from city to city. Nobody *wants* to be stuck in a desert tent cities/de facto concentration camps run by military police for years.
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A 2x2: X= acute vs chronic displacement pressure Y = opportunity pull vs crisis push. You get 4 categories of migration flow. The opportunity-pull flows are what create a lot of wealth (gold rushes, tech booms, brain drains) via talent swarming. It’s the same logistics problem.
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You want the IoM to encourage constant flows and circulations, turning crisis-push flows into opportunity-pull flows. Use humanitarian relief actions to automatically bootstrap labor-market efficiency upgrades. Historically this has always happened anyway.
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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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There should be an accounting for how much a migrant can give and how much will he be given by the host State. Kind of a return of investment.
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This is a really bad idea. It assumes that states and native residents of them have intrinsic value that requires no justification, but people coming from elsewhere do. Either look at mutual value any of the 3 provide to each other or none.
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In Ancapia, natives should be evaluated that way too, and most people would actually have good measurements. It's accounting for the value of the infrastructure put in place.
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Can't do that without implicitly justifying the violence required to put the infrastructure in place. In general, this kinda of utilitarianism leads to infinite regress and the value of everything becomes ambiguous/ill posed.
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