If humanitarian agencies invested in providing refugees with freedom to move, work and remain in the country of asylum (all the things that camps prevent), refugees could actually become a benefit to the host society and economy.
Refugee crises are usually seen as a problem of disaster relief rather than in the context of the enormous new tide of urban migration. An urban migration that with the resultant transnational human networks between urban nodes is a rarely recognized form of globalization (Saskia Sassen).
Successful integration of displaced peoples is highly dependent on their individual characteristics. When it occurs it can greatly add to urban heterogeneity. Denying it has led the majority of the world's urban refugees to support themselves in the informal economy.
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