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Status Of Refugees In Europe

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Refugees in Europe
People are people only when they have their home and they are society when they are contributing to their home countries. Unfortunately, due to variety of reasons not all people are destined to have their home and live in peace situation. These people in other words can be called asylum seekers when they are forced to not “to live in peace”. The core definition of a "refugee" is contained in the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, which gives a definition: "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of …show more content…

Historically past examples of mass refugee flows include the Balkans war, the Rwandan genocide and World War II. Recently, the civil war in Syria, the ISIS killings in Iraq and Syria, violence in Yemen, Libya, Sudan and South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, once again in Europe- in Ukraine. Multicultural Europe widened when all these asylum seekers began to inhabit in different parts of Europe. The destination of asylum seekers are Germany, France, UK from Pakistan, Somali, and Middle Eastern countries, also Serbia and Russia. According to the statistics of UNHCR the largest number of asylum applications in 2014 were registered in Germany (173,100), Turkey (87,800), Sweden (75,100), and Italy (63,700).
The problems of the refugees arise because of the poor living standards. It starts with the camp life where people face with hunger, lack of water and rising dirtiness. A deplorable example can be shown the Harmanli camp, a former military base located in Bulgaria, where refugees eat just potatoes, rice, and bread and have serious sanitary problems. There is no medical help for the wounded and the ones who are suffering from diseases. Although the camps are built temporarily but it can take 10+ years to get rid of this limited …show more content…

Refugees leave all their belongings back in their native country and because of the war all cultural monuments and graves are destroyed it creates culture loss problem. Refugees who live in Germany face these problems till nowadays. In the history also the rise of Nazism led to huge increase in the number of refugees from Germany which caused creation of in High Commission for Refugees Coming from Germany by League in 1933. Moreover, Jews were stripped of German citizenship which shows the highest level of

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