Africa: Legal Routes No Easy Fix to EU Migration Crisis

28 April 2015
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Oxford — In a new column, Jeff Crisp, former policy chief at UNHCR and now an advisor with Refugees International, questions whether opening up more legal routes into Europe is really the silver bullet to the migration crisis in the Mediterranean many make it out to be.

What can be done to address the refugee and migration crisis in the Mediterranean, which has led many thousands of people from Africa and the Middle East to risk and lose their lives in a desperate attempt to reach Europe?

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