But to what extent that will happen, is debatable. As we can see, for example, from the threatened dissolution of the European Union, with member countries resisting the imposition of free movement of EU citizens between their borders.
And the EU struggling to come up with and implement a comprehensive policy to appropriately respond to continuing pressure it is under, from non-European migrants and refugees.
Each country, when it sees or perceives its economy and socio-political status threatened by non-national 'outsiders', wants to control the gates through which the migrants and refugees are or could enter it.
Probably not surprisingly, they also want to be in charge of defining who is a migrant and who is a refugee and who is an economic migrant.
All of which, at different times, can be one and the same thing. For example, although it is common practice to ascribe the label of refugee to people facing political repression or persecution or both, and who is at risk of serious harm by the state or its agents, as it were.
To be continued!
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