New country for world's refugees!
The world is in the middle of an extraordinary migration crisis. Across the globe, chaos and violence have left nearly 60 million people displaced, largely living in difficult conditions in poor nations.
But there is one man who thinks he can solve this crisis. He isn't a politician or academic, nor does he work directly with refugees at an NGO. He is a US property mogul. His solution is, depending on your position, either strikingly simple or absurdly naive: the world needs to come together to create a new country for refugees to live in.
“It's almost shocking to me that nobody's talking about this as a solution,” Jason Buzi said about Refugee Nation, his plan to create a new state to house the world's refugees. “We have a lot of stateless individuals all over the world right now,” he explained. “The idea is, if we could give them a state of their own, at least they'd have a place to live in safety and be allowed to live and work like everybody else.”
Creating a brand-new state purely for refugees may sounds like the stuff of science fiction. And frankly, Buzi's background makes it easy to dismiss him as another hopeful “Silicon Valley disrupter”, ignorant of the complexities of what he is proposing.
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