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Originally Posted by Blackshep
How many is too many to take in?, where do they all go? and what communities are expected to tolerate them?.
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All valid questions, but ones that aren't being discussed properly as a good chunk of the debate is 'how do we stop it happening at all' and not 'how do we make it happen in way that we can manage successfully'.
If I understand these figures correctly (and always happy to be corrected if I haven't), our number of known refugee population is no greater than it was in the 1960s. We have half the refugees in the UK now than we did 20 years ago
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...alue_desc=true
There are many factors as to why the numbers have moved around over the last 60 odd years, but we're 30th in list for current refugee numbers and there are many countries in the world that take in more refuges per percentage of their population than we do, many of which have significantly less resources to support them than we do too -
https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2020...most-refugees/