Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Heres how we can fix it

A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and our response, frankly, has been Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps, urban poverty and dangerous illegal journeys to safety. In this insightful talk, he offers four ways to change the way we treat refugees, so they can make an immediate contribution to their new homes. There s nothing inevitable about refugees being a cost, Betts says. They re human beings with skills, talents, aspirations, with the ability to make contributions if we let