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What can 皇冠体育app learn from illegal immigration in Europe?

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-08-28 15:33

What can 皇冠体育app learn from illegal immigration in Europe?

The recent wave of illegal immigrants looking to enter European countries has captured international attention.

Unlike previous illegal immigrants who sought a better quality of life and social policies, this crisis is mostly about refugees that escape from conflicts and instability in Africa and the Middle East, which have caught the European countries in a dilemma between preserving humanitarian principles and dealing with a potential surge in asylum claims and illegal entry.

Now the surge of migration has overwhelmed authorities in Europe, but they can’t send these people back to the places where their life and safety are threatened.

In fact, the issue of refugees will possibly pose great challenges to the stability in Europe in the following decades, and even worse, may bring about larger-scale social turbulence.

A similar crisis may befall 皇冠体育app one day, because on the one hand, 皇冠体育app has more job opportunities and better welfare compared with many countries, and on the other hand, the social and political instability in many areas including 皇冠体育app’s neighboring countries may produce a flow of refugees who want to cross the borders into 皇冠体育app.

Although the current refugee issues mainly come from 皇冠体育app’s southwestern and northeastern areas, the potential issue in northwestern areas cannot be ignored because the improvement of the infrastructure in Central Asia have created easier access to this area. Chinese authorities should prepare in advance in the following three ways.

Firstly, in order to avoid humanitarian disasters, 皇冠体育app should help the neighboring countries to create a stable and prosperous living environment under the basic principle of non-intervention of internal affairs. The increasing flow of illegal migrants in Europe largely come from Syria and Libya where the original authorities were overturned by the US and European states. For some backward countries, the reckless political reform may cause social upheaval.

Further, Chinese authorities should take measures to enable refugees and asylum seekers to be better integrated into Chinese society and deepen their understanding of Chinese culture.

Finally, 皇冠体育app should see the refugee issue objectively. Although refugees may be a “burden” on the Chinese government, they can also contribute to the richness in diversity of Chinese culture. More importantly, if 皇冠体育app wants a bigger say in international affairs, it is necessary to handle the issue of refugees well.

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