Refugees: Burden or Resource?

Aug 09, 2017, 03:46 PM

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People tend to talk about #refugees in terms of the burden they place on their host countries. Another school of thought is to look at what refugees have contributed to their host countries, in the past, and potentially in the future. Here's my BBC Radio report about a scheme in Denmark, which seeks to help refugees become net contributors to the society which took them in.

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