Is the channel crossing crisis a global issue?

Mediterranean crossings

Latest Mediterranean deaths highlight need for safe migration routes | UN News

Not heard about as much over here - and many more deaths.

Yes it is a global issue. Eg the UN are always advocating to countries to have safe routes for asylum. Every stretch of water in the world has the same problem of small boats bringing a mix of people who are refugees fleeing war and want to seek safety, and economic migrants fleeing poverty who are seeking jobs and a better life.

A mix of people on the same boats, exploited by the same trafficking and smuggling gangs as States don’t have any formal and legal channels open to them.

The answer is legal routes for people fleeing war, conflict and persecution to reach safety. And legal routes for people wanting to migrate for better economic opportunities to move as a migrant worker.

The UN and many international organisations have serious recommendations and models for both. The problem is that countries across the world, from Indonesia to Australia, from Iran to Oman, from Saudi to South Africa, from Greece and Spain and the UK to Canada and the US, from Dominican Republic to Brazil to Argentina … these countries don’t want to let them in.

So what are we do to about people moving? Human mobility is a thing. For different motivations and needs. But the tensions with States not wanting to cooperate are getting worse. Something has to give.

The numbers are currently tiny compared to what is to come when climate change renders whole countries uninhabitable. The time for global action was 60 years ago. Now all we can really do is watch it happen.

The West needs to stop interfering in stable but questionable countries, unseating the dodgy dictators and leaving chaos and anarchy which people rightly want to flee.

The Middle East and North Africa are still suffering from the Blair War Years and it will no doubt take decades more for these countries to settle down.

It is absolutely a global issue.

Global people smuggling gangs who have no care for the safety of their "cargo" as long as they get paid. Often modern day slavery waiting at the other end of the route if they cross safely.

And it's going to get worse as climate change makes more of the planet inhabitable.

I believe so, and it needs a global response. As do so many issues such as climate change, which is connected to migration anyway.
Can we do it? Not sure.

The problem underpinning it is inequality and non functioning economies/states.

Its not so much the issue of where people want to go, its how badly they are trying to leave where they are from

It would be a good idea if the world would unite on this as migration will increase with climate change, so it would help if they started now.

But they won't.

During COVID the world's airplanes were grounded, and cruiseliners moored up. Whilst the solution would have been hard work, it was a global opportunity to talk about climate change solutions. These industries could have been brought back very differently (v.v. differently)

But not a squeak.

These things won't be done, however sensible the idea.