Between January and November of this year more than 750,000 migrants have been estimated crossing into the EU’s borders compared to only 280,000 in the whole year during 2014 (www.bbc.com). This influx of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East has become a heavy burden for European Union policy makers. Many state leaders have opposing viewpoints and varying solutions to the crisis that is plaguing their region and as a result there has been little to no actions taken to solve this ever growing problem. This crisis should serve as prime example of global cooperation, and it should highlight the ability to come together internationally and deal with important problems that affect all individuals. The solution of the refugee crisis will
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated, “If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for”. The Washington Post and the BBC News both wrote articles focused on the refugee crisis, they both however differ on how they approach the subject. The Washington Post’s article focused on five possible solutions for the refugee crisis, and the pros and cons of each possible solution. These solutions included doing nothing, establishing quotas for each country for the amount of refugees they must accept, taking military action against human traffickers, resettling refugees directly from and around Syria, and final solution bringing peace to Syria, Afghanistan, and the other surrounding states. The article concluded saying that bringing peace to the
Bohuslav Sobotka, the Czech prime minister, said the following in a recent interview as a warning ‘immigrants may bring about the collapse of the EU.’ Refugees are intruders and impose burdens onto other countries. Refugees will take jobs and resources from struggling
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugee is a term applied to anyone who is outside his/her own country and cannot return due to the fear of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political opinion. Many “refugees” that the media and the general public refer to today are known as internally displaced persons, which are people forced to flee their homes to avoid things such as armed conflict, generalized violations of human rights or natural and non-natural disasters. These two groups are distinctly different but fall ...
This has led organisations such as Refugee councils and Refugee Action
The current migrant crisis is nothing more than a deliberate misuse of words. In fact, the Migrant Crisis should be renamed the European crisis because media and propaganda are so intent on transferring the center of crisis from the impoverished and war stricken populace of the Middle East to Europe. Various journalists have intentionally manipulated the meaning of the term “migrant” in order to obscure the humanity of countless men, women, and children. In addition, sources define migrants as “invaders coming to strip the European state of its economy and culture”(Geller). They argue that migrants have come to steal the jobs of the natives before them, feed off of the developed country’s insurance, and ultimately, as Viktor Orban, prime minister
The place refugees are going to have to provide and support them with resources. The evidence I used supports my reason and overall claim because not many refugees have their own resources like food, water, clothes, shelter, etc. Without these things, refugees will die so it is the countries responsibility to provide these resources for them. This is extremely important for a country that accepts refugees. Without resources, it will lead to huge
Another casual night: the air is sticky, and the water is scarce, all throughout the country the sound of gunshots are ringing through the air. For most people, this “casual” night is beyond their wildest imagination, but for Syrians it is an ongoing nightmare. Faced with the trauma of a civil war, Syrian refugees seek protection and a more promising future than the life they currently live in their oppressive country. Many seek refuge in other Middle East countries like Turkey and Jordan, but others search for hope in the icon of freedom, the United States of America. However, in America, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not Syrian refugees should be accepted. America needs to accept the Syrian refugees because if they do not, the
Global emigration is leaving one country for another for a variety of reasons that are due to conflict, persecution, and voluntarily (Shah, 2008). The difference between emigration and refugee is that an immigrant leaves one’s country to settle in another while refugees flee their country of origin for fear of harm. The potential for either is both positive and negative because they are a resource of human capital, entrepreneurship, and increased labor, potentially benefiting the host country (Milton, Spencer, & Findley, 2013, p. 624). Inequality amongst nations because the globalization of trade that affects political and economic policies creating winners and losers causing a global migration crisis (Shah, 2008). The complexity of the issue isn’t isolated to one country but those who are producers and consumers and their connection to economic growth, opportunity and security. People transiting across the globe are doing so in record numbers. The world population is roughly six billion people, and those living outside their
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a topic of great debate for many years, both in the UK and across many
The first chapter of the book provides a highly informative background and history to the concept of refugees, as well as their relevance to the modern international political system. The authors importantly point out that defining a refugee is not simply a matter of academic concern because resulting definitions may mean the difference between life and death for people in conflict zones. Defining a refugee involves political and ethical considerations, inevitably creating disagreement regarding the issue. For example, when refugees are defined in a certain way by the United Nations, research will consequently revolve around such definitions and will help support the status quo of the institut...
Nationality is between a country and a person, sometimes the people who are no relate to any country, call stateless. Also some of the stateless can be refugees, these two groups of people is care by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Nationless is a very big problem; it may affect more than 10 billion people in this world. Everyone in the world can be having their human right, but some activity in country only able nationals to participate, for example: election. Also much of the stateless didn't have their right, they may never get the ID of the country, just get in to jail, losing the chance of education and health services or can’t get a job (UNHCR, 2014). This article is talking about what power of the nation states has to manage issues and effect the beyond national boundaries. By the refugee Convention (1967), refugees can be applying t person who is fear to persecute by race, religion, nationality, or the member of a social group and government. In this person is don't want himself protect by that country who fear, also don't want to return to that country. By the divide of UNHCR, there are four types of people, which they care: Asylum-Seeker, Stateless people, Internally Displaced People and Returnees. Asylum-Seeker refers to the person who is finding the international protection, not all the asylum-seeker final can be a refugee, but all the refugees begin is an asylum-seeker. Stateless people refer to who are not relating to any country and national. Internally displaced people refer to the people who are forced to leave their home because of the wars, or some human problem, and getting in to another country from the border. Returnees refer to the people who return to their own country, they are supported by UNHCR when they arrive (UNHCR, 2014). The nation state is a country; they have the political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity. A country is mix by culture and nation that mean a nation state may in the same place. Much of the nation state is forms by a people with a polity
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Since 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing their country and looking for safety in places like Turkey. There is a great global debate on the solution to this refugee crisis involving as many as 20 independent countries plus the European Union. The United States is caught in a debate of its own on whether to take in Syrian refugees because of a conflict of domestic safety and global humanitarian obligation. By analyzing the historical background of the United States regarding Jewish, Hungarian, and Cuban refugees, there are distinct similarities and differences between the political decisions, domestic response, and overall effectiveness of refugee policy compared to the current Syrian Refugee
Cina believes the Syrian refugee crisis is a problem Europe can handle well on its own and America doesn’t need to take part of. This mentality resembles that of the United States during World War II, when Congress created a legal quota of 25,000 but only accepted 11,356 Jewish immigrants by 1937. With the incident of St. Louis, where 938 Jews on board a ship from Germany were denied entrance into Cuba and other areas along America’s coastline, and were eventually killed by the Nazis when they returned to Germany (Walter). The U.S government justified themselves by Franklin D. Roosevelt arguing that there might be a chance of Nazi spies slipping in- and uncanny resemblance to the current excuse. Cina claims that the true reason the European Union (E.U) won’t help the Syrian Refugees is because, “the E.U looks at refugees and sees nine million people they would have to feed, house, and heal, and they know that their countries can’t handle that without having
The Palestinian refugee crisis is one of the world’s biggest issues today. Israel's declaration of independence in May 1948, forced more than 350,000 Palestinians to flee their native land as