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Generals always prepare for the most recent war and politicians always manage the most recent migration crisis – or what they and their voters remember as the most recent crisis. In this way collective memories of migration play a decisive role in policy decisions and may prevent societies from developing appropriate responses to resettlement processes.

That was the case in Europe in the year 2016. An estimated 2.2 million people arrived in the territory of the European Union during the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016 from Syria, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Eritrea and many other countries.¹ That number represents merely 1.7% of the 130.9 million people forcefully displaced worldwide in those two years.² Housing, feeding, and educating the two million hardly constitutes a serious financial or material challenge for the EU where, in 2016, 511 million people accumulated a combined GDP of $16,4 trillion representing 21% of the global GDP.³ It would take a lot more refugees to overburden the resources of this area o

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