Reporting on refugee issues around the world, including the political, economic and environmental causes of displacement and the people and ideas addressing forced migration. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/series/the-cost-of-fair-refugee-policies/rss en Economy Laws & Policy Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:00:28 +0000 Behzad Yaghmaian https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/08/04/protecting-refugees-in-nations-struggling-with-poverty-and-instability https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/08/04/protecting-refugees-in-nations-struggling-with-poverty-and-instability Rich countries have a terrible record of policy intervention in the global South, exacerbating the vulnerability of the majority of the world’s refugees, says political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian. He argues for a radical new approach to refugee protection. Laws & Policy Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:42:17 +0000 Behzad Yaghmaian https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/07/21/to-protect-refugees-we-must-confront-anxiety-over-muslims-in-europe https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/07/21/to-protect-refugees-we-must-confront-anxiety-over-muslims-in-europe European policy-makers must address cultural and political anxieties about Islam and refugees head on, rather than ceding the public debate to the far right and their self-defeating policies, argues political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian. Economy Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:14:41 +0000 Behzad Yaghmaian https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/27/we-need-universal-basic-income-to-end-economic-anxiety-over-refugees https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/27/we-need-universal-basic-income-to-end-economic-anxiety-over-refugees Refugees, migrants and the struggling middle classes in Europe have all been harmed by neoliberal globalization, writes Behzad Yaghmaian. He makes the case for an alternative “solidarity-based globalism,” including universal basic income and an end to austerity. Economy Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:19:50 +0000 Behzad Yaghmaian https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/02/why-migration-will-not-destroy-the-welfare-state https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/02/why-migration-will-not-destroy-the-welfare-state As part of the series ‘The Cost of Fair Refugee Policies,’ Behzad Yaghmaian argues that economists’ warnings that migration will undermine European welfare states are based on the same mistaken assumptions common to the anti-immigrant movements roiling the continent.