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.
- Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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.
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on refugees.
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.
The proposed EU asylum and migration reforms focus on securing borders and making it easier to deport people, with little protection for migrants and asylum seekers.
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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