Stopping small boats is a limited answer to a much wider and long-term problem.
Stopping those in unseaworthy boats from risking their lives in the English Channel is a very limited answer to a very much bigger challenge.The United Nations wants its members to focus more on the causes that have put more than a billion people on the move.
On Saturday, six more people drowned when a boat capsized between Calais and Dover, and 59 were rescued. The disputes otherwise focus on the activities of lawyers in support of their migrant clients, the impact on communities and the hospitality industry of hotels being used to house those in limbo, while Labour highlights problems with the slow handling of refugee applications.For more context, it might also be worth taking the story further back to understand the pressures that make these people prey to people trafficking.
The FAO aggregates this into more than a billion people across the world who are now or have been on the move. At least three-quarters of them were moving internally, and often from rural to urban living. So if there is disruption within a country, economic or violent, it tends to start people on a longer journey. And the FAO argues that these 'drivers' of migration have to be tackled where they begin.
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