Refugees In Australia Essay

Refugees

Refugees are people who have come to another country seeking refuge they have left their own country to find a safer country for them and their families to live in because of wars, natural disasters, tribal and religious violence, famine and poverty and political persecution.

There are:

• 65.5 million displaced people

• 22,5 million refugees, half of who are under 18

• 10 million stateless people

• 198,300 resettled refugees world wide

The countries that are at highest risk of becoming refugees:

• Columbia with 3.6 million, 11% of their population

• Iraq with 3.5 million, 11% of their population

• Afghanistan with 2.8 million, 8% of their population

• Sudan with 2.8 million, 6% of their population.

55% of the worlds refugees came from these countries:

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Why does Australia have a limit to the amount of people who are let in annunally?

Australia, like all other countries needs a limit to the amount of people they let in annunally. Some countries are more genouros to the amount of people they let in, which creates a problem, unruliness and not enough space, homes or jobs. Australia needs to put a limit on the amount of refugees they let in because this would be a bad situation to be in. Australia has said that they will be permantly resetteling 12,000 Syrian refugees. This act will cost $700,000 million, and has also agreed to give $44 million to UNCHR to help 240,000 people through the new year.

Do people become a refugee voluntarily?

Nobody would become a refugee voluntarily,

To be a stateless person, you would have no citizenship to any country. A person/s can be born stateless, or end up being stateless over time.

An internially displaced person is someone who has been forced to move elsewhere in their country due to conflict, natural disaster