[updated as further suggestions pop up]
- Islands: Egyptian billionaire: I found the island I want to buy for refugees
- Open the border: Best way US could help Syrians: open the borders
- Tradable quota: How a tradable refugee-admission quota system could help solve the EU’s migration crisis; see also: Fernández-Huertas Moraga & Rapoport: Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration / Ending the refugee deadlock / Tradable refugee-admission quotas, matching, and EU asylum policy / How economics could solve the refugee crisis
- SesamePass + Refugia: The migrant and refugee crisis, responses and solutions (Robin Cohen + Nicholas Van Hear presentation)
- Regional Compact: Do we need a regional compact for refugee protection in the middle east?
- Safe zones: The hidden danger of safe zones in Syria; 16.02.2016: Turkey revives plan for safe zone in Syria to stem flow of refugees; Safety First in Syria
- Obstacles: Slovenia’s Solution to the Refugee Crisis? ‘Technical Obstacles’ on its Borders
- Border controls: Sverige innfører midlertidige grensekontroller
- Dialogue: Valletta Summit Final Declaration + Action Plan
- Schools + hospitals: EU urged to focus funds on displaced Syrians in Middle East
- Investing: New ideas to tackle Syria refugee crisis: investing, not aid
- Special Economic Zones: An experiment in Jordan aims to provide jobs for Syrian refugees
- NOT walls: AI: ‘When there are fences, there are human rights abuses’; HRW suggestions for the EU
- Internment camps: Mayor uses Japanese interment camps to defend his rejection of Syrian refugees. (this is disgusting.)
- Prison (as housing; not detention): He fled from Syria to avoid prison. He ended up living in one anyway.
- “Detention” (private prisons): Prisons aren’t the answer on immigration
- International conferences: U.N. to hold March summit to resettle, place millions of Syrians
- Visa waiver programs: Lawmakers may have better idea than turning away Syrian refugees
- Resettlement (!): Anders Anundsen in NRK, Vil gjøre det enda vanskeligere å komme til Norge; Why America could — and should — admit more Syrian refugees; The Case for Syrian Refugee Resettlement in the US; A Humanitarian Stimulus
- 18 month detention: Detain refugees arriving in Europe for 18 months, says Tusk
- questioning additional legal channels: Legal routes no easy fix to EU migration crisis
- Monthly payments for hosting refugees: The City of Milan Will Pay You 350 Euros to Host a Refugee
- Gas taxes: Vurderer å finansiere flyktninger med skatt på bensin
- Greek debt is the key to the asylum crisis
- Ferries: Ship asylum seekers back to Turkey, Netherlands tells EU
- Private sponsorship: Scaling Up Resettlement: The role of private sponsorship programs in addressing the refugee crisis; The Economist explains: Why so many Canadians privately sponsor Syrian refugees
- Flotels (floteller): Slik skal UDI takle en ny asylkrise
- Floating hotspots: Italy’s ‘floating hotspot’ idea to sink in legal waters
- Operationalize the 1951 Refugee convention: A global solution to a global refugee crisis
- Fight corruption (re: Central America): Migrants are the Symptom. Good Governance is the Cure.
- Planes: Let them fly: Ask the government to offer safe passage to Syrians
- 1-for-1 swaps: EU-Turkey 18.03.2016 leaked draft agreement
- Additional channels: No Way Out? Making additional migration channels work for refugees | UNHCR’s Global Responsibility Factsheet
- College, scholarships: Want to help Syrian refugees? Help them go to college. / Oxford students refugee campaign funds 8 scholarships / Online ‘university of anywhere’ opens to refugees
- “Corrective fairness mechanism”: David Cameron claims victory in battle with EU over migrant arrival rules
- Matching markets: Europe’s asylum system serves neither the refugees nor the countries. Here’s a new way of thinking about it [I don’t mean this in a flippant way, but this sounds ridiculously similar to “bid-matching” used for the Panhellenic intake process]
- “Surge” funding: Europe: a better plan for refugees
- “Hack” the refugee crisis / Davos for refugees: Business must “hack” the refugee crisis
- Stop migration at the source: EU to propose new funds to stop migration at the source
- FMR 52: Thinking ahead: displacement, transitions, solutions
- Pre-determined quotas (Hathaway article from 1997): Time to reform the way we protect refugees? / ESIL Lecture, Fixing the refugee system
- EU funding: Divert 10% of EU funding to deal with refugee crisis, Germany says
- Understand conflict: Conflict key to understanding migration
- Man-made islands: A Dutch architect’s plan to put Europe’s refugees on a man-made island near Tunisia
- AirBnB: A man in Washington DC is hosting refugees through Airbnb
- Regional solutions: Are regional approaches to refugee protection really the best way forward?
- Coffee shops: Coffee shop project gives refugees grounds for hope / 1951 Coffee plans to employ and empower refugees
- Video info campaign to inform about difficulty of routes: Campaign launched to discourage refugees from heading to Europe
- Virtual reality: One startup’s quest to save refugees with virtual reality
- George Soros’ 7 Pillars for effective alternative to the EU’s current approach
- Brookings forum + blog
- RefugeesDeeply – Experts to Watch: Innovating Refugee Response
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