The United Nations' refugees chief has criticised the politicisation of migration in European elections, warning that demonising refugees would only make the issue more difficult to deal with.
The head of the United Nations' refugees agency has criticised the politicisation of migration in Europe an elections, and warned that demonising refugees would create problems, and make it harder to develop and implement solutions.
With countries tightening migration policies across the EU in recent years, a tilt to the right in the European Parliament is expected to further influence the bloc's migration and asylum agenda.acknowledged that swelling numbers of refugees and migrants could pose significant challenges,"first and foremost for the people that are on the move, but also for the people hosting and receiving them, for the countries, governments receiving them".
"To build barriers actually increases irregularity of movements which are more difficult to manage," he said.Instead of demonising refugees and migrants, he encouraged countries to work together on addressing the root causes which are pushing people out of their homes.He pointed to the largely neglected conflict raging in Sudan that in recent months has spurred a"steep rise in the arrival of Sudanese refugees... into North Africa, Libya, Tunisia and then across to Italy".
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