Argumentative Essay On Syrian Refugees

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Zaher and Iman Ahmad and their two daughters are Syrian refugees they don’t speak English. Not a word. They have gone through the horrors of losing their friends and family, they have lost their homes and lives due to the bombs and air strikes attacks in Syria. After midnight on the 31st of December 2015, Iman and Zaher Ahmad and their two daughters arrived at Pearson International Airport. Their only possessions, other than their documents, were parka coats, winter boots, and a child’s teddy bear. They were put on a bus and taken to a hotel to sleep, then woken up a few hours later to return to the airport for their final journey to Ottawa. When they arrived, Zaher saw their names on a sign in Arabic and a big group of people …show more content…

Resettling refugees is a small way in which Canada show solidarity for the most vulnerable around the world. Canada is giving these families and people the chance to build new lives for themselves such as getting a good education, starting their own businesses, they’re able to be free to do what they want and know they are safe and have a stable home. Many refugees go on to make an important cultural and economic contributions. Canada’s modern-day refugee policy took shape following the end of the second world war when the country took on a greater role in global affairs. Between 1947 and 1952 Canada admitted hundred and 186,000 European refugees. In 1956 Canada resettled 37,000 Hungarian refugees and then also settled an additional 11,000 Czechoslovakian refugees in 1968. In 1978 when the immigration act first came into force in Canada and introduced ‘refugees’ of the distinct class of immigrants they stated that one of the objectives of Canada’s immigration policy was to ‘fulfil Canada’s international legal obligations with respect to refugees and to uphold its humanitarian tradition with respect to the displaced and the persecuted’. Canada then went to great lengths to uphold humanitarian values and resettle refugees in need from across the

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