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13 Refuge 1 (1993-1994)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr13 and id is 1 raw text is: CANADA'S PERIODICAL ON REFUGEES Vol. 13 a No. 1 Canadian Policy, Global Apartheid and African Development Canada no longer practises racial dis- crimination towards African migrants and refugees. Growing numbers of refu- gees from Africa have been accepted into Canada as refugee claimants. Neverthe- less, in addition to data supporting these two conclusions, Yohannes Gebre- sellasie offers a plethora of data to show that Canada discourages the resettle- ment of African refugees in Canada and would prefer that they settle elsewhere. Relatively few refugees (compared to the actual number in Africa and elsewhere) are able to make a refugee claim in Canada and fewer still are accepted. Gebresellasie's article offers further evidence to support Anthony Rich- mond's thesis that the West is moving towards anonexodus approach to immi- grants and refugees from the Third World. Richmond contends that there is a deliberate effort to recreate apartheid on a global scale. He also predicts it will fail. Gebresellasie also briefly discusses the aid provided for resolving conflicts that produce refugees and for assisting in refugee settlement and repatriation and concludes it too is inadequate. Mohamed Ali Arkow looks at the possi- bility of aid as a way of dealing with refugee-producing conflicts that are products of rapidly increasing popula- tion, environmental degradation, inap- propriate technologies and consumer demand for new products produced by the West. Arkow advocates a system of appropriate technology transfers rather than more loans, which would impover- ish African countries even further. But what assurance do we have that these technology transfers willbebenefi- cial? In any case, I have just returned from an OECD meeting in Madrid on migration and development; evidence suggested that in the short and medium term, development exacerbates rather than stems migration flows. Will the re- sulting response be global apartheid as Richmond predicts, fears and deplores, or is this too pessimistic a conclusion about the inadequate efforts to cope with conflicts and refugees? This is futurology about probable outcomes of different courses of action. But values as well as forces also have their effects. We must understand the forces at work predisposing certain out- comes. We must also decide our norma- tive priorities in dealing with these forces. Norms can influence the weight and effect of various forces. Given our best understanding of the factors at work, it is our values and decisions that will give those forces a direction.E Howard Adelman © Howard Adelman, 1993. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited. April 1993 Contents: Canada's Response to Black African Immigrants Yohannes Gebresellasie............................................................................... 2 Open and Closed Borders: Is the New World Order Creating a System of Global Apartheid? A nthony H . Richm ond.............................................................................. 6 Development in a Fragile Environment: The Case of Somalia M oham ed A liA rkow ................................................................................. 11 Book Review: Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration Nobuaki Suyama .................................... 14 '0^

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