Next year will see a decade-long anti-immigration sentiment in US & Europe get full play. Never mind only around 4% of world population are immigrants. Never mind sensible immigration solutions
The Assad statues had barely been toppled in Damascus before a clutch of European countries and Turkey began the push to speedily send Syrian refugees home. The new year, 2025, it seems, is destined to end an era-defining decade just as it began: with Syria’s displaced at the centre of a consequential chain of events and international migration at the top of the news agenda.