One obvious distinction the article doesn't make, is between people fleeing their country temporarily with intent to return, vs. indefinitely. Syrian refugees have no expectation of ever going back to Syria. Ukrainian refugees can probably go back home within the year.
Until we genetically re-engineer humans to eliminate these primordial instincts, kinship will continue to matter (as the author notes, it is not unique to Europeans). In the current world, it is a short-lived society where it doesn't.
Her perspective is not unique and is a bit late: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRwmTVVKQk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRwmTVVKQk</a>
To maintain public support for annual refugee acceptance policies.<p>It depends on your definition of 'refugee'; economic, natural disaster or conflict.<p>I read a recent report in the Gruaniad that claimed the UK was 'not taking refugees' when in fact the UK was insisting those accepted obtain visas.<p>The quickest way to destroy public confidence in refugee programs is to allow a free-for-all for anyone who chooses to turn up unannounced.<p>Of course socialist administrations consider public support irrelevant, until they get voted out.