Syrian Immigrants in Lebanon

Back in the early 90's, when the civil war ended in Lebanon, the major part of the buildings and streets were completely deteriorated. Thousands of people were homeless and thousands lost their jobs. Some preferred to stay in Lebanon, and some migrated to other countries to seek and build a new life. Surprisingly, the Syrians in Lebanon were the main force that had led to the renovation of Lebanon. Afterwards, families of those Syrian workers started to migrate and concentrate mainly in Beirut. Nowadays, the increase in the number of the Syrian immigrants were highly seen when the civil war started, and continue, in Syria. "The presence of Syrian workers in Lebanon had become the subject of great controversy" (Chalcraft,2005). Syrians are now a subject matter of competition at different levels with Lebanese citizens. However, the negative aspects where overwhelmed by the positive ones, whether looking at the social or economical perspective.

Typically, when the number of Syrian refugees increases in number, the country's population increases as well. And those people are concentrated where they might find a job or can reside to live safely, far from the war that is held in their country.

Title: Graph that shows the distribution of Syrian refugees in the Middle East.( El-Khatib et al. Conflict and Health 2013)

As we can see from the graph below, by the end of May 2013, The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the major part of the Syrian immigrants went, not surprisingly, to its most neighboring country, Lebanon. The estimated population of Lebanon is 4.2 million, which makes the Syrian refugees 7% of its population Size. However, in August 31 2013, another survey reveals that the Lebanese G...

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...rian refugees and workers provide, and could be isolated if the government take crucial steps in building new health and educational institutes. Syrian immigrants are and will always be a working force on the economical as well as the social perspective, being the building blocks of Lebanese infrastructure, enforcing Arab interdependence, and the main reason for Lebanese social diversities', which is one of the most important ways a country can be recognized by the rest of the World.

Works Cited

Of the specters and Disciplined Commodities Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon-John Chalcraft, 2005.

Syrian refugees, between rocky crisis in Syria and hard inaccessibility to healthcare services in

Lebanon and Jordan

Ziad El-Khatib 2013

Correspondence

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Crisis in Lebanon: camps for Syrian refugees?

Jeremy Loveless 2013

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