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A new Solution to the Refugee Problem
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Nice to see some lateral thinking being applied to one of the world's truly intractable problems, but I can’t see a 'world staging area' for refugees providing a likely solution.
There were an estimated 14 000 000 refugees at the end of 2008 and numbers have been as high as 21 000 000 during the last decade. That many refugees cannot possibly be accommodated in one place. Besides, the majority travel by foot and seek protection in countries immediately next to their own. Having one world location would necessitate an impossible journey for most.
Refugee camps to date have never had a 'queue' so I’m not sure how you think a staging area of this size could suddenly manage one. Even if it could, the crux of the problem would remain, that is that most developed countries refuse to shoulder their fair share of resettling the world’s refugees.