2.26.2017

Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it

TED 2016
Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it (script)
Summary
Refugees can contribute to your country. Your thought that refugees are inevitable cost or burden to society is wrong.
You know that many refugees don't have anywhere to go but some children of refugees still died. It shows that an international refugee system doesn't work because it's created over 50 years ago.
The speaker tells us four ways that the host states and communities, our societies and refugees themselves can benefit. We have to update the way that we think about the refugee issue internationally.
1) Refugees are the human beings like everyone else but they're just in extraordinary circumstances. We need to provide them with opportunities for human flourishing. It means that we provide not only shelter and food but also education, the right to work and access to capital and banking.
2) To increase economic zones for refugees to be able to work widely.
3) To create a matching system between states and refugees.
For instance, students with university places or matching kidney donors with patients you can use can be applied to them.
4) To allow to get humanitarian visas. It leads to saving lives, removing the chaos from borders and stopping the smuggling.
Refugees intensively move to one country. Thus this causes confusion. This situation has to be solved immediately. Many countries should cooperate with one another and fix the role.

Words in this story
humanitarian / man of virtue. a person who seeks to promote human welfare; a philanthropist.
aspirations / desire, wish, aspiration,a hope or ambition of achieving something.
migration / movement from one part of something to another.
refugees / a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
flourishing / developing rapidly and successfully; thriving.

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