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“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.”

Book:The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

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“...he couldn’t help wondering how it had felt: refugees turning up from concentration camps, from a broken Europe, to find this bleak estate; its squat huts their new homes. There’d been watch towers and barbed wire fences. It can’t have looked like freedom. But freedom was measured, he supposed, by what you were leaving behind.”

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Book:Joe Country

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“The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground”

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Book:The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

Source: The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

“Humanitarianism may be appropriate during an emergency phase but beyond that it is counter-productive.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“The humanitarian silo model is increasingly out of touch. It fails against almost any metric. It doesn't help refugees, undermining their autonomy and dignity. It doesn't help host governments, transforming potential contributors into a disempowered and alienated generation in their midst. It doesn't help the international community, leaving people indefinitely dependent upon aid, less capable of ultimately rebulding their countries of origin, and with onward movement as their only viable rout to opportunity.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“The catch-22 is that urban refugees are expected to help themselves and yet cannot freely access the labour market.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“There is an alternative. And it starts with recognizing that refugees have skills, talents, aspirations. They are not just passive objects of our pity, but actors constrained by cruel circumstance. They do not have to be an inevitable burden, but instead can help themselves and their communities - if we let them.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“Imagine if, instead of the humanitarian silo, we could conceive of an approach that could support refugees' autonomy and dignity while simultaneously empowering them to contribute to host communities and the eventual reconstruction of their country of origin.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“AI won’t replace designers, but designers who use AI will replace those who don’t.”

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Author:Qudama Rafiq

“As we have seen, the geographical reality is that the overwhelming majority of the world's refugees are in countries that neighbour conflict and crisis. These 'countries of first asylum' in developing regions today host 86 per cent of all refugees, up from 72 per cent a decade ago. In consequence, it is the countries with the least capacity to host refugees that bear the greatest responsibility.”

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Book:Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

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