{"id":408,"date":"2014-11-01T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/11\/01\/the-world-is-not-awash-in-refugees-open-the-gates\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:51","slug":"the-world-is-not-awash-in-refugees-open-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/11\/01\/the-world-is-not-awash-in-refugees-open-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 the refugee flood is, in its origins and its greatest extremes, a European phenomenon. We Westerners have been refugees much more than we have been refugee\u2019d upon\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today we face the Syrian crisis. It is neither the largest nor the most unmanageable refugee flood of the postwar era, but it has arrived at a bad moment: first, because we have by now forgotten our own history as refugees; second, because an ugly politics of intolerance is influencing many Western governments; and third, because there is an unfortunate public belief that refugee tides are larger and more permanent than they really are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026 the refugee flood is, in its origins and its greatest extremes, a European phenomenon. We Westerners have been refugees much more than we have been refugee\u2019d upon\u2026 Today we face the Syrian crisis. 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