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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, dated October 1995, contains the proceedings of a conference on ethnic conflict held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored it. Academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials presented papers on ethnic and territorial conflict in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. They also discussed what these conflicts mean for US policy. The document contains no UFO material.
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C00123268 movement and border vigilance have not been lost, further 310,000 de facto refugees should be taken into merely shifted further east. Geographers, who have a account as constituting the non-German sector of the long-established interest in migration, displacement, population. and territorial adjustment, are contributing to our understanding of the changing patterns. Since unification and its attendant economic and fiscal difficulties, this liberal attitude has been openly chal- James Walsh (1992) has provided an overview that lenged. Anti-immigrant violence has made many Ger- suggests that in France the threat of increasing migra- man citizens wary of an extension of their open-door tion of Muslims animates racial passions. Fully policy, especially when the media are quick to point 3.5 million foreigners make up 6.2 percent of the total out that 93 percent of asylum seekers do not have a population. The migrants are accused of such things as valid case. Thus, one inescapable conclusion is that depressing average economic wage levels, refusing to many places within Germany are going to witness integrate, clustering in Islamic neighborhoods, and sporadic and deep-seated violence. When this general undermining French culture.and customs. Such trend is applied to the borders with Poland, the Czech charges serve the cause of the National Front under Republic, and Austria, it is evident that one major Le Pen, who won 38 percent of the November 1991 cause of future conflict will be the manner in which election vote and, in the regional elections of 1992, cross-border movement is handled. gave the National Front a larger percentage of the vote than the Socialist Party under Francois Mitterrand. The German state's response is to attempt to quench the migration flow at the source through a massive Bruno Megret, a leading theoretician of the National investment in the emergent capitalist economies of the Front, has announced a package of migration-curbing east and increased immigration control at external EU proposals: 1) posting of $180,000 bond by all non- borders. To some extent this will be welcomed by European visitors, 2) mandatory AIDS testing, dependent economies that will replace the ruble with 3) review of the status of all aliens in France, 4) the mark, but it is also likely to create deep-seated. stricter border control, 5) no family unity doctrine, resentment and accusations of internal colonialism, 6) repeal of the agreement on freedom of movement 'reminiscent of the first waves of German expansion in for EC-member migrants, 7) no social benefits to previous centuries. Such border controls will facilitate migrant children, 8) priority for French citizens in the removal of internal EU border checks but only to housing and social benefits, and 9) immediate deporta- the extent that each constituent country is as efficient tion for migrants with improper or no official docu- and determined as Germany, France, and the United ments, (Walsh, 1992, p. 21). Clearly such blatant state Kingdom in employing external controls, a doubtful nationalism will not be adopted in policy terms by any assumption. responsible French Government, but more subtle vari- ants of these elements have entered the agenda of The most recent migrants are incorrectly viewed as respectable political parties and interest groups and economically dependent and relatively unskilled-a will be set in sharper focus as the key policy alterna- drain on EU resources. Miles (1992, p.41) is especially tives each time urban racial violence occurs. sensitive to this assumption. He argues that "this homogenization of migration flows is factually mis- The former German Federal Republic was a logical taken and analytically problematic" and that "...large destination for many displaced Europeans and others numbers of recent migrants originate from Eastern because of its historically sympathetic reception of Europe, the migration of aussiedler into Germany refugees that is enshrined in Article 16 of the German being of special significance; that the most important Basic Law. It is estimated that some 400,000 asylum category of internal labor migration within the EU is seekers were processed into Germany in 1992. Walsh that of skilled professional and managerial labour; and suggests that 80 percent came from the Third World and that the vast majority were Muslim; he argues that an additional 4 million Turks and their families and a 51
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 205 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.