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I think the article is salvageable with major changes. At the moment, it's about two concepts: (1) political leaders engineering "migrant crises" to extract economic or geopolitical concessions from other countries and (2) politicians "using" the presence of refugees by whipping up fear for political
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I concur, that the content of the article is lacking. It is an interesting subject and might have made for a good paper, but it is strangely written for a WP article, i.e. putting "criticism" at the start and putting a lot of new concepts with very few sentences or explanation. Definitely needs some
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Keep and improve. There are low quality articles that are poorly written and contain errors in
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There is no differention to political persecution and thus need to flee over many countries. Also migration and political persecutees are intermixed, which does not make alot sense. Migration is clearly the superset of refugees and thus the title should be changed.
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There is no differention to political persecution and thus need to flee over many countries. Also migration and political persecutees are intermixed, which does not make alot sense. Migration is clearly the subset of refugees and thus the title should be changed.
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The article's title is problematic and the various sections rely heavily on an (unpublished) Master's dissertation, without proper academic referencing. I agree that there is bias throughout this article, and the scientific basis of its claims are very weak.
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