A very good question Memnoch.
Unfortunately i donīt think there is one country that can be proud over there situation with how they handle refugees..
Here in Sweden we take on soe immigrants, but we are not that many people and can only take so many persons. We give both temporary asylum and also we take some for life. We try make a judgement on how the possibilities are that a person can within reasonable time and/or without risk return to their country. If they can in time return, they donīt get a Swedish stateship, but are treated as a refugee.
The best thing done was probably the way things with the jugoslavia cirises, though that could be better dealt with, they got a country they could return to.
Unfortunately, there are many countries you canīt go back to becuse the political or agricultural or whatever the reason to flee is still not better.
The best way in my mind is well, only IMHO, to try and work for solutions in the countries with the problems that makes people depserate to leave them... This is not easy however and i also thik that more countries have to work together to take the refugees and well try to give them the best solution any country can.
In the aspect of Australia and how they have acted, I think that Australia has done a reasonable call here. One canīt take too many refugees. That lead to a worse treatment. Also conflicts between inhabitants and refugees can occur as well...
There are always problems, and of course the best eway would be if no one had to leave their country.. But that is Utopia again, and well.. Tough calls have to be made sometimes..
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