En route to the siblinghood of humanity?

Miriam Farhi Rodrig

pp. 251-262

in: Nimrod Bar Am, Stefano Gattei (eds), Encouraging openness, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

We are in the making of an information revolution in which big data is transformed into knowledge for policy recommendations by national and local governments, global institutions and other large organizations. Against this backdrop, a growing migration crisis pokes the western world threatening its past achievements and adopted values. My aim is to discuss one grand solution and three more modest solutions to the migration crisis which unsettles the European Union in particular. Moreover, my aim is, also, to extend invitations to decision makers to critically move towards the adoption of, at least, one of the solutions discussed. In addition to discussing both the grand solution proposed by Rosentein-Rodan, and the three more modest solutions, namely the reactionary, the reformist, and the radical, I explore the way decision makers can facilitate the conditions to formulate initiatives within the new status quo regarding the migration crisis in the European Union. My bias is for the humanitarian model and I consider myself a traditional liberal for laissez passer and laissez faire. My methodology is that of critical rationalism, which critically examines competing solutions to problems. I opt for the adoption of the grand solution in conjunction with the radical solution and for facilitating the conditions within the status quo in the European Union for a more critically assessed, dignified and fruitful migration.