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12 Rev. Int'l L. & Pol. 33 (2016)
Europe Can Stop Human Deaths and Suffering, and Regain Control of Its Borders

handle is hein.journals/rinlp12 and id is 33 raw text is: Review of International Law & Politics Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 33-39, 2016(0 DOI: 10.19096/rilp.2016116718 EUROPE CAN STOP HUMAN DEATHS AND SUFFERING, AND REGAIN CONTROL OF ITS BORDERS FRANCOIS CREPEAU* Synopsis: The European Union should take a whole-system view of migration and review how its related policies and underlying concepts could be shifted to develop a human rights-based approach. Applying the European Union core values to policies that are based on fact rather than fiction, would lead to migration policies that facilitate mobility and celebrate diversity. The continued ineffectiveness and paradoxes of EU border mana- gement policies and the lack of a coherent, human-rights-based approach to migration have been vividly and visibly demonstrated by countless deaths of migrants at sea. Maintaining the status quo is unsus- tainable, considering its huge human and resource costs. My long-time proposal for Europe is to bank on regulated mobility in order to avoid the loss of lives, to take over the smugglers' market, and to regain control of the border. Inefficient Investment in Over-Securitisation First of all, EU member states must accept that migrants will come, no matter what, because there are push factors and pull factors that urge them *United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. E-mail: migrant a ohchr.org 33

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