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How many Syrian refugees should Australia take? |
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52% |
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A few hundred |
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A few thousand |
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Over ten thousand |
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As many as possible |
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David
to wish impossible things
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stui magpie wrote: | Firstly, yeah, I don't think the Syrians fled to Turkey for PS4's and centrelink, they did so because it's close and culturally similar. |
I think "not dying" was the slightly more pressing aim.
The reason why so many refugees are crowding into Istanbul should be pretty obvious. They want work. They want a functional life, not to be stuck in the provinces with nothing. The fact that the Turkish government is washing their hands of them by escorting them to the sticks (and, in some cases, chucking them out of the country altogether to fend for themselves) just shows how little hope they have of any kind of functional life in the country.
(also, on your last point, not sure if you're joking, but Turks and Syrian Arabs are ethnically distinct.) _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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stui magpie
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I'm not sure why being in the Provinces automatically means you can't get work there or that there's nothing there, but clearly flooding into the city isn't going to increase their chances of accommodation or work if that is indeed their rationale and not just an assumption. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
to wish impossible things
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^ It's the same anywhere, isn't it? Here in Australia, there's mass unemployment in the country and people flock to the city for jobs, resulting in overcrowding and drain on resources. I suspect that that dynamic is much more severe in developing and middle-tier countries; think of the slums in Mumbai, etc. It might seem like an easy fix to kick people back out, but I just don't think it works that way (and I suspect there's going to be a lot more hostility, prejudice and, yes, racism in more rural areas). Unless the government has a decent support program in place, it's just another displacement they have to endure without any clear end in sight. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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stui magpie
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It's interesting though that where refugees have been settled in rural areas of Australia, there's evidence that they've fitted in and been adopted more readily than in the cities. Google refugees and Shepparton as 1 example.
There's some large cities in the Turkish provinces too, but I concede that people for some reason think there's more job opportunities in Cities. I left the bush and moved to the city at 19 not because there wasn't any work, but not the work I wanted to do. Pretty much my whole year 12 class left and is scattered around the country and world.
This guy got deported back to Syria because he was living in Istanbul but his permit was to live in Bursa which is hardly a small town or rural area.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkey-has-deported-hundreds-of-syrian-migrants-advocates-and-refugees-say/2019/07/22/14114c9c-ac87-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html
What seems to be happening in Turkey seems to be similar to where ever anyone has taken large scale refugee intakes. They flock to large cities and locals after initially being supportive, get pissed off _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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watt price tully
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Four Corners tonight on ABC TV looks like a ripper if you can use that adjective here:
Married to Islamic State:
"In a baking hot detention camp in Syria, a large group of Australian women and children are being held indefinitely. They're the remnants of the Australian contingent who lived under Islamic State. The Australian Government has branded them a "significant security threat" and made it clear it does not want them back.
There are 20 women and more than 40 children stuck in the al-Hawl camp. Who they are and how they got there has until now, remained secret. Now for the first time, their stories are being told.
In this exclusive Four Corners investigation, the former brides of Islamic State reveal the extraordinary details of their lives in the IS caliphate".
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/married-to-islamic-state/11551918
Or see it on iView _________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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pietillidie
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stui magpie wrote: | It's interesting though that where refugees have been settled in rural areas of Australia, there's evidence that they've fitted in and been adopted more readily than in the cities. Google refugees and Shepparton as 1 example.
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We usually think rural folk are less tolerant, but the city can be far lonelier and even more of a culture shock, and rural folk can be more charitable and are incentivised to take on town-wide missions to make things work. Don't quote me, but think I've read that Canada has success doing the same thing.
You can't just dump people in large cities without purpose to be tutored by an existing struggling underclass, and preyed upon by crooks and scumbags. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
Help Nick's: http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/fundraising.htm |
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stui magpie
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Yeah, in a country town, even a largeish one like Shep, there's far more of a community feel than in a large city suburb. Refugees become part of the community. There'll always be people who don't like it but it seems to work far better.
Bring in a family, Dad gets work and makes friends with people from different backgrounds. No public transport to speak of means Kids can't just jump a tram or train and go 6 suburbs away to cause anonymous mayhem, and the community gets around them in the same way they got around the migrants in the 50's.
Kids get a far better chance to assimilate in that environment. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Ever thought if it like that, good point _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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thesoretoothsayer
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Another point about regional towns is that it's harder to exist within an ethnic ghetto (ghetto not meant in a pejorative sense). You end up having to come to terms with the host culture rather than pretending you're still in Athens, Saigon or Juba. |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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<snip – hate speech about refugees deleted. Thanks, David for BBMods.>
Thousands of Iraqi refugees leave Finland voluntarily
Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily, citing family issues and disappointment with life in the frosty Nordic country.
Almost two thirds of the asylum seekers last year were young Iraqi men, but some are now having second thoughts, so Finland will begin chartering flights to Baghdad from next week to take them home.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-finland/thousands-of-iraqi-refugees-leave-finland-voluntarily-idUSKCN0VL0UE _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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watt price tully
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^ What’s Iraqi refugees leaving Finland got to do with asking how many Syrian refugees should Australia accept?
_________________ “I even went as far as becoming a Southern Baptist until I realised they didn’t keep ‘em under long enough” Kinky Friedman |
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David
to wish impossible things
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To be fair to Skids, some contextualising material in which that link was made has been moderated out. Suffice it to say that it's just more of the same ugly far-right propaganda about refugees that we've all heard before. _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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think positive
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We could take a few more if we send the Sudenese thugs caught in the last few raids back to Sudan
To be fair they didn’t mentioned ethnicity on the news, but it wasn’t a tan, 5 onto one for a fricken phone worth a couple of hundred bucks, thugs, Vermin, scum _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Just watched an ABC show about settled refugees from Manus (nobfoxtel here!) . Interesting, thought provoking.
1 guy was sponsored by a Canadian,Aussie couple who’s Aussie daughter was a nurse on Manus, they raised $30k to get him out and settled in Canada. He’s happy, got a job in the tourism industry and attending uni.
A bunch of 300 plus aussies across the States embarrasses about Australia’s treatment of refugees are helping out the refugees the Yanks settles. They don’t get much support but then the States have enough welfare problems. Interesting the different attitudes. 4 guys in a flat all with jobs but miserable, it was Australia or nothing for them. One would rather go back to Manus. One is mad his family have been accepted to Australia now but he can’t get in. These 4 are a worry! And pretty unappreciative if the USA. Another guy lives around the corner and has truly embraced Chicago, a job, friends he says I am accepted, I am Free, I am loved. When he left Manus the immigration guy said “don’t come back’ the US custom guy said ‘Welcone to America “.
Interesting show. They came from a country I’ve never heard of and I can’t remember, not Syria though. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Wokko
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In the next episode of "Migrant rape crisis" Finland has released this helpful 'tik tok' video to combat the rape epidemic hitting European welfare states after the purely coincidental arrival of millions of migrants from the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5lUbNlTtY
But sure, lets bring them here too. |
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