Durable Solutions 4/13

1). What are the conventional "durable solutions" and why have they failed?
1. Repatriation
This has failed largely due to the fact that states act based on their own interests
rather than that of the refugees. Additionally, enduring conflict often either renders
it impossible or undesirable.
2. Local Integration
This occurs between and beneath the laws that aims to restrict the meeting of
refugees with host governments.
3. Resettlement
This scarcely ever transpires-constituting about 1% alone of the refugees benefit
from this solution.

2). How does Long propose that we re-think the refugee problem?
1. By acknowledging the possible roles that involve migration and mobility in
securing rights for the displaced.
2. By considering how the international community can work to ensure the
protection of freedom of movement.

3). What are the potential solutions?

1. The states to which refugees often resettle are often insecure and insufficient to
house refugees. Thus, a migration-centered remedy to displacement might unlock
some protracted crises.
2. One must counter the intrinsic hesitance of accepting refugees local integration
by recognizing long-term refugees as citizens. This way, they may utilize essentialalbeit limited-state resources.
3. This solves displacement by offering migration to a limited number of refugees.
Thus, one must open up new migration pathways to the West (to add onto existing
humanitarian and resettlement programs) and could thus establish new channels
for economic and social development.