My Refugee Channel (I call it "my" as one who proposed it awhile back) is still gelling, and has to overcome objections from Survivor genre "reality TV" producers, who fear overshadowing by true survivors (bad for ratings).
We know many refugees will be endearing and achieve stardom, plus they're doing the technologically speaking "sexy" work of prototyping, like test pilots, but of entire "campus" (from "camp") solutions, including experiments with crypto-currencies. Kids watching will wonder how to break in to the refugee business. Good news: the floodgates are open.
The issue of "open versus closed borders" is a general one. We might go back to Prouty and Iran-Contra and talk more about the small planes. Drug traffickers are not trying to climb over Trump Wall. They fly in to Mena, Arkansas, or used to, per old books in Dollar Store bins. If we're talking about substance control, let's say so. Human trafficking is something else.
In this blog, we take a strong interest in the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing. Both sound wrong and objectionable, but there's a difference between murdering and pushing out. Many apartheid-oriented neighborhood associations have been successful in keeping various neighborhoods ethnically cleansed, i.e. free of some fill-in-the-blank ethnicity, but without resorting to lynchings.
I mention all that because a Refugee Channel needs to not be too sloppily scripted, such that the storytelling anchors slip up all the time, the way we allow on ordinary civilian TV. The Refugee Channel has to interview lots of military and paramilitary about what's going on on the ground, to manage an evacuation after an earthquake for example. A lot of refugees are fleeing natural disasters. The personnel need a lot of training and self-discipline and may have prior military and/or paramilitary experience themselves.
But what about the high technology part I always write about? Isn't it the case that electric ATVs, yurts with RV-like hookups, shared sound stages and festivals (yes, like Burning Man) all belong to science fiction? Where in the world does the United Nations actually have its act together? We'd already have a Refugee Channel if the curriculum were even a little bit better. The UN acts within severe constraints, obviously, and has historically become a target.
That's where the scripting comes in. Storyboard artists need to plan out where the next Asylum City will be, and how it will connect within the existing network. Managing a circulation system for relocating humans, sometimes at the whole family or whole village level, or even regional level, takes a lot of logistical support from existing campus facilities.
The Asylum City matrix is designed with a living standard floor in mind, namely that of a college campus. Each freestanding yurt, tent, bizmo, or apartment dorm may not have a full kitchen, of the kind used in mess tents and company cafeterias, but they'll have enough to nuke ramen, brew coffees and teas, and refrigerate leftover desserts brought back from the "snack-topias" (picture food pods).
We call them campuses because that's a lot of what goes on: learning, experimenting, making tomorrow happen. Some tribes use a different, yet intelligible, namespace and that's fine.
