Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far more restrictionist in the past decade.
- Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
More than 6 million Syrians fled the country after it descended into civil war in 2011.
Millions of Palestinian refugees are set to suffer as a result of banning the UN agency, piling pressure on the US, which has warned of ‘consequences.’
Setahun sejak serangan Hamas dan pemboman Israel di Gaza, konflik ini telah menciptakan generasi pengungsi baru di seluruh wilayah Timur Tengah.
A year on from the Hamas attacks and Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, new fronts of fighting are creating another generation of displaced people across the region.
Attempts to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act have faltered, leaving tens of thousands of Afghans who fled chaos during the fall of Kabul in limbo.
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.
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