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The world's broken promise of asylum

世界各国难以兑现庇护承诺

For more than 70 years, the world has enshrined, in national laws and global agreements, a promise that was presented as vitally important: Anyone who cannot live safely in their home country may seek refuge in another.

70 多年来，在世界范围内，一个至关重要的承诺被庄严载入国家法律和全球协议：任何在自己的国家无法安全生活的人，都可以到另一个国家寻求庇护。

But the Western powers that championed this compact have been steadily eroding it in recent years — chipping away at their own, and therefore the world's, obligations toward a responsibility they once characterized as crucial to global stability.

但是，那些倡导这项契约的西方大国近年来却在逐步削弱它，这减轻了其自身以及世界各国履行责任的义务。而这些西方大国曾认为，庇护对维持全球稳定起到了重要作用。

That assault, experts say, reached a new extreme last week, as Britain's government announced a new plan for thousands of foreign citizens in the country who had applied for asylum. Rather than hear their claims, it would ship them to Rwanda to become someone else's problem.

专家表示，在上周，（西方国家对这项契约的）抨击达到了新的极端。因为英国政府宣布了一项针对新计划，这一计划针对数千名身在英国并申请了庇护的外国公民。英国政府并不会听取他们的要求，而是会把他们送到卢旺达，让他们成为别国的麻烦。

A rise in right-wing populist politics, the backlash in Europe against a surge of migration in 2015 and then the coronavirus pandemic have accelerated this practice and others like it: walls, armed patrols and "deterrence" policies that deliberately make the journey more dangerous.***

右翼民粹主义政治的抬头、2015 年欧洲人对大批移民的强烈反对，以及之后的新冠疫情都加速了遣送移民和其他类似做法：建墙、武装巡逻和故意提升行程危险性的“威慑”政策。

The result is not exactly that the global refugee system is dead. European governments are taking in millions of Ukrainians, for example. Rather, Britain's policy highlights that this system, once held up as a universal and legally binding obligation, is now treated as effectively voluntary.

其结果并不完全意味着全球难民系统已经终结：例如，欧洲各国政府正在接纳数百万乌克兰人。相反，英国的政策凸显出（一个变化），接纳难民曾经被视为一项全球性的、具有法律约束力的义务，但现在，这实际上却成了一种自发行为。

Europe's seeming double standard — as its governments welcome Ukrainians but continue going to extraordinary lengths to keep out migrants from the Middle East — has laid the unwritten norms of the new refugee system especially bare.

欧洲似乎采取了双重标准——政府欢迎乌克兰人，但继续不遗余力地将来自中东的移民拒之门外——这使得新难民体系中不成文的规范尤其暴露无遗。

主编：桃子、阿翀

品控：桃子、馒头

审核：Jack

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AFP / Philippe LOPEZ

AFP / Aaref WATAD

重点词汇

asylum

/əˈsaɪ.ləm/

n.（尤指政治）避难，庇护

英文释义：protection that a government gives to people who have left their own country, usually because they were in danger for political reasons

搭配短语：to seek political asylum

例句：He has been granted asylum in France.

enshrine

/ɪnˈʃraɪn/

v. 把......庄严地载入，把（法律、权利等）奉为神圣；把......置于神龛内

词根词缀：en-（表示“进入......中”）

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