From the European perspective we see a lot of refugees flooding to our countries, many of which are young and male and athletic looking. Many like to argue that if there is war in their Country, why would these people not stay to fight to better their situation there? I would like to counter this question with another question, why would Europe built borders that favor athletic young males and keep out everyone else?
Imagine as an example you were a homosexual from any country in Africa, an English speaker in Cameroon, a young female about to be forced to marry in Saudi Arabia, an Uighur in China or a Syrian in terrorist occupied Idlib. All of them are elligible to get refugee status. But how would you get to Europe?
If you go from Africa, you would not be able to apply for Visa unless you have for each day (45€ for each day) enough money. You would have to show your both flight and return tickets and evidence of hotel booking. This is for many a too high requirement already, hence people flee through Sahara over the mediteranean sea (and become 'illegal immigrants'). Meanwhile Europe funds and supports north african Dictatorship to keep these refugees, fleeing sometimes from these same countries, in Africa, hence creating more refugees. Harassment of Sea Watch 3, illegally preventing them to enter port despite the distress call from sea watch 3, which currently is all over the news, prevents people attempting to flee from these same countries with a nutshell. Climbing the 5 fences of the Spanish border at Morocco is made impossible by the amount of Police beating down anyone who comes near the fences.
fleeing from Libya
If you flee from Syria or Saudi Arabia, you would undergo the same Visa requirements, but fly how? Turkey would hold them in massive camps due to the refugee deal with Europe, allowing Turkish to travel through Europe but letting only a limited number of refugees through the border, which will later be prevented at Hungaries fences. If you fly from Saudi Arabia fleeing, the Airline might be asked to capture you and force you back to Saudi Arabia to be put in a Women Prison or even killed. Even foreign countries like Thailand or Australia are known to comply with Saudi's demands to send back these refugees.
Saudi woman fleeing marriage and for her life. Thailand blocks her from flying and Australia revokes her visa. After baricading her self in a room at the Airport, so police cannot tie her up to put on a flight back to Saudi, she reached out to people through social media causing her to get enough attention to get Canadian refugee status.
If you are an Uighur in China and did not apply for a passport in 2015, then you are screwed. That is the only time you were allowed to apply for a passport, and merely owning one can get you in a concentration camp. If you are Falun Gong, then be so secretly while you apply for passport, as being Falun Gong will get you in a slave camp too where you can find through blood tests a match to be organ harvested (Chinas Solution for Organ 'Donation'). The neighboring countries send back, in exchange for Chinese funding any refugee (also Falun Gong who have a Passport) of their country. Russia is China's best friend. USA has a phase of Trump where getting a Visa to USA became hard. One of the few places they can possibly flee to is Europe. Chances are that a developing country you flee to has ties or funding from China (even Australia).
Example price of an organ from a living Falun Gong from Bloody Harvest report
There is no safe way. If you want to go to Europe you have to be a strong young male to survive the trip and join the sausage fest Europe where immigration is criminalized. Meanwhile with 70 million refugees around the world, the need for countries to escape to is greater than ever.
Legalize refugees. Let them apply asylum at embassies so that they can come the safe way. A chance to survive should have equal opportunity.