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In discussing "push" and "pull" factors, we have alluded to
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region and continent, to discrepancies in the provision of aid
and even of humanitarian assistance from one area to another.
It seems increasingly important that standards of living should
not remain so low that people see no alternative but to move.
Economic distress ought to be capable of resolution if there no major political factors to prevent a solution being
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These considerations should be viewed against the fact
the South is now coping with many more refugees/migrants
than the North. Not only are the short-term effects often
serious for the receiving country in terms of sudden humani-
local markets of tarian need, impact on
of increased demand,
especially for food, job competition and so forth, but large
influxes can
divert attention, resources, energies and time away from development projects. They may set back years of effort aimed at changing conditions in some of the less developed countries, disrupt the fragile political base for many régimes and even alter the ethnic composition of the population.
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No wonder that mass movements have become yet another
catalyst in the North-South polarization. The South feels that its refugees get less, certainly on a per capita basis,
than is the case in the North. One OAU observer at UNHCR's
Executive Committee once suggested that a whole village could be
settled in Africa for the cost of individual care and maintenance
a handicapped case in Europe or Latin America! This is also the subject of dissatisfaction between regions of the South:
Africa feels that it has been getting too little
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