ETH201H1 Lecture 9: ETH201 – Lecture 9
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As part of the reading, the munk debate about refugee crisis: not a shining calibre of democratic discourse. 7% were in favour of the proposition and in favour of the borders being opened. It"s not that there is no risk, but you weigh this risk with other things, it"s fairly unlikely: it"s concerning to make an argument that the concerns are so grave that you shouldn"t allow any refugees. Question 1 the classical definition: subject to criticism, the existing definitions may ignore people fleeing war zones, and would only count those who have successfully escaped their country for example ignoring internally displaced people. What do you do with that many people: the international system is designed to deal with political dissidence. A deeper problem: 60 milllion people or more need a new home and the current system has no practical solutions, to put this in perspective consider what canada has done, canada has taken 40 thousand refugees.
