Today a little book tip for you, but only for those who want to understand what's going on:
«Weapons of Mass Migration: Expulsion, Extortion and Foreign Policy» (original: Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy), non-fiction book by the US political scientist Kelly Greenhill, published in 2010. In 2011, the book was named the best book of the year by the International Studies Association (ISA). Awarded this year! The title of this book alone is a resounding slap at politics in Europe, especially Berlin. And the timing: The American original was published in 2010, four years before the flow of war refugees, economic migrants and false asylum seekers began to grow rapidly in autumn 2014. This wave of migration cannot have been as “surprising” as the political caste and the federal government would have us believe. And it is well organized.
Kelly Greenhill's book was written with the aim of becoming a standard work on the subject. So a certain academic smell is noticeable. At times, things go relatively far. I found the passage particularly interesting in which it is explained that the countries of origin can not only strongly influence migration, but also particularly benefit from it. Not only is a lot of social pressure being disposed of and exported, which arises at home because many young people cannot find work. The money that migrants send home from the destination country makes up a significant portion of the overall economic output in some of the countries from which they come. The fact that the current migration to Europe could be a weapon does not even occur to many contemporaries and is even dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Even before reading the book, I was convinced that an orchestrated escape was taking place here, and this book provides a lot of new evidence of this...