{"id":29977,"date":"2018-01-21T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29977"},"modified":"2018-01-21T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:36:23","slug":"regime-change-and-globalization-fuel-europes-refugee-and-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29977","title":{"rendered":"Regime Change and Globalization Fuel Europe\u2019s Refugee and Migrant Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regime Change and Globalization Fuel Europe\u2019s Refugee and Migrant Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Right-wing populists are exploiting the migration issue in both the United States and Europe, but dismissing their arguments would be a mistake. Instead, an honest assessment of the economic and regime-change policies that fuel migration is needed, reports Andrew Spannaus.<\/p>\n

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Anti-establishment political forces in the both the United States and Europe have seized on the issue of illegal immigration, seen by many voters as a threat to both economic well-being and cultural identity, as a key component of their electoral strategies. While Donald Trump has made the wall with Mexico one of his priorities and has worked to uphold a ban on immigration from a number of Muslim nations, in Europe, numerous political parties have been following this script for many years.<\/p>\n

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Main irregular border crossing routes into Europe. Source: European Union<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Drawing on the economic anxiety of the middle class, tied to fear of being undercut by low-wage work and worries concerning terrorism and cultural changes, anti-immigrant sentiment has become a key weapon of right-wing populist forces. These forces have drawn on the narrative of governing elites that pursue their own, limited interests, while seeking to hold down the majority of society through policies that rob them of both economic opportunity and their cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

The sentiment is significant and growing, contributing to the growth in support for populist causes in a series of recent elections in Europe \u2013 including in Germany and Austria \u2013 as well as a noticeable shift in attitudes towards immigration in the past two years, even among more moderate segments of the population.<\/p>\n

A major factor has been the recent surge in migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa \u2013 mainly the consequence of the disastrous \u201cregime change\u201d wars starting with the invasion of Iraq in 2003, through to the more recent conflicts in Libya and Syria \u2013 and the resulting perception of an impossible-to-stop \u201cinvasion\u201d that is changing the character of Europe.<\/p>\n

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Regime Change and Globalization Fuel Europe\u2019s Refugee and Migrant Crisis Right-wing populists are exploiting the migration issue in both the United States and Europe, but dismissing their arguments would be a mistake. Instead, an honest assessment of the economic and regime-change policies that fuel migration is needed, reports Andrew Spannaus. Anti-establishment political forces in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[18053,6963,281,370,1538,3814,1343,827],"class_list":["post-29977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-andrew-spannaus","tag-consortium-news","tag-europe","tag-globalization","tag-migrants","tag-refugees","tag-regime-change","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29978,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}