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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Tamkeen Saeid and Philip McKibbin

How the politics of love could revolutionise New Zealand’s refugee policy

A woman comforts a child on a road leading from Ukraine to Slovakia
A Ukrainian family fleeing the Russian invasion. New Zealand’s response to that crisis shows it is capable of doing much more for refugees. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Our world is careening into crisis. In May this year, the United Nations’ refugee agency announced that, for the first time, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached 100 million.

When 1 in 78 people globally have been forced to flee their homes, and as climate change threatens to displace more than 1 billion more of us by 2050, we need to ask ourselves: is our current refugee policy adequate?

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