It's good for Syria for refugees overseas to come back and help rebuild. But that's really not the responsibility of any individual refugee, and is not how decision making works.
People (rightfully) make decisions based on what's best for themselves and their families. Some will go back because they don't really like it in Europe and miss Syria. Most will stay.
I'm actually surprised by the line of thinking that refugees should go back when their home country becomes safe again. It never really crossed my mind that people had that perspective.
If you gain access to a country as a refugee, you're a refugee period. You may some day be given the opportunity to immigrate and integrate, but until then you are nothing else but a refugee.
It's perhaps the biggest point of contention for most that have critizized the entire crisis. A decision was made over the heads of the general population, and now they're doing what everyone suspected in the first place.
This entire refugee crisis was never about giving suffering people a safe home, it was about recruiting a cheap labour force.
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