The refugee and migrant ‘crisis’ has been in the headlines for the last year – but is it really a crisis? In this film I take an alternative look and ask what it really means for you, me and the future of our way of life.
Scroll down for links to all sources for all facts and data used in the video.
Written and Directed by Adam Westbrook
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Fresh Eyes on the Refugee Crisis
http://globalyoungacademy.net/fresh-eyes-on-the-refugee-crisis/
SOURCES:
In 2015 alone, more than 1 million refugees and migrants came ashore, the majority escaping the conflict in Syria:
Official figure for 2015: 1,005,504 – Institute of Migration: http://migration.iom.int/europe/
Europe has a population of 508 million people:
EuroStat, official http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Demographic_balance,_2014_(thousand)_YB15_II.png
Europe’s population increased 0.19%
1,005,504 / 508,000,000 x 100
70 years ago Europe was handling 31 million displaced people
Porter, Anne “Ghosts of Europe” p. 281
Europe’s shrinking birthrates:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Number_of_live_births,_EU-28,_1961%E2%80%932013_(%C2%B9)_(million)_YB15.png
Europe’s ageing population:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Median_age_of_population,_EU-28,_2001%E2%80%9314_(%C2%B9)_(years)_YB15.png
Economists are saying immigration is essential for Europe’s labour shortage:
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/popdecline/fotakis.pdf
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/new-report-migration-and-development/
http://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-an-expert-happen-if-eu-opened-borders-to-everyone-584
https://ideas.repec.org/p/mse/cesdoc/13013.html
Immigrant families contribute more each year than they take out:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2013_migr_outlook-2013-en
Immigrants in Denmark raised wages and quality of life for locals:
http://www.economics.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/peri%20paper.pdf
This isn’t a migrant crisis, it’s something else
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/2016/02/refugee-crisis-crisis-policy-rather-refugees
We wouldn’t have any greek influences or science if it weren’t for the Arab World
Lyons, Jonathan “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilisation”
http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Wisdom-Transformed-Western-Civilization/dp/1408801213/
Western values, institutions etc are neatly summed up in the UN Declaration of Human Rights (1946) and the European Declaration of Fundamental Rights (2000)
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/charter/index_en.htm
Fukuyama, Francis The End of History (1992)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/End-History-Last-Man/dp/024196024X
Estimates of jihadists leaving Europe
http://uk.businessinsider.com/afp-more-than-6000-european-jihadists-in-syria-eu-official-2015-4
Daesh have formed the largest volunteer fighting force since World War 2
https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-altering-revolution
Daesh are selling an inspiring message
https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-altering-revolution
Jihadists are motivated by “sacred values”
http://artisresearch.com/the-devoted-actor-sacred-values-and-willingness-to-fight-preliminary-studies-with-isil-volunteers-and-kurdish-frontline-fighters/
People in the west are not inspired or motivated by western values
http://artisresearch.com/the-devoted-actor-sacred-values-and-willingness-to-fight-preliminary-studies-with-isil-volunteers-and-kurdish-frontline-fighters/
Nothing angers and frustrates Daesh more than seeing Syrians and Iraqis welcomed into the west.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/islamic-state-alan-kurdi-photo-magazine-dabiq-syrian-refugees
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