1.8 Literature Review
1.8.1 Introduction
There have always been refugees. Wars, political upheavals, ethnic discrimination, religious strife, and a wide range of human rights abuses lead people to become refugees. Throughout the past century, there have been many peaks and troughs in the overall numbers of refugees and other displaced people in the world, with huge numbers during the two world wars and during the 1980s and 1990s according to Betts A. et al (2012). At the beginning of 2011 the office of UNHCR estimated there were 43.7 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.
This section discusses two sub-sections in relation to the specific objectives or the independent variables. The first sub-section discusses the world overview of settlement
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Political changes in Europe, Asia and Africa brought a significant number of immigrants or more correctly, repatriates to Europe. The most significant of these movements was repatriation of expellees and refugees after the Second World War (estimated at about 15 million people), including both the return of the German speaking civilian population from former German Eastern European territories: from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, as well as German prisoners of war according to Kogan(2007). The 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees and the UNHCR were the International Instruments that were formed to address the question of Refugees in Europe according to Boccardi (2002). Europe has responded to increasing flows of refugees seeking asylum in Italy and Greece with increasing restrictive …show more content…
The refugees have settled in Jordan with more than 1.6 million registered refugees according to Chatty (2010). Palestinian refugees could not return to their lands after Israeli State refused to accept a UN Resolution 194 resolving that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at their earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss or damage to property which, under principles of International Law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible as per Chatty (2010). With exception of Palestinians living in Jordan, most of the Palestinian refugees do not have citizenship in the countries where they have since
The Universal Refugee Some people believe that Universal Refugees are different people that deal with different hassles. However, that is not true. The Universal Refugees understand each other and deal with the same struggles such as immigration, hardship and assimilation. When entering a new country, refugees most likely will deal with hardship from just entering the country to actually living in it.
1. My 2 best picks 1a. 1953 Refugee Releif act: I liked this act because America wasn 't afraid or scared about others, they took in 200,000 refugees and saved them from the war torn contrie they lived in. 1b.1980 Refugee act: This act sperated the refugee numbers and the imagration numbers allowing more refugees and imagrants to get the chance to enter the united states to get nationality 2. The
When I was fourteen-years-old, I first saw the photograph of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. She was a refugee of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan captured in a single frame of Steve McCurry’s camera. The oceanic coloration of her eyes and the ghost-like expression on her face captivated my attention, just as it had captivated the attention of the Western world in 1985. Her photograph brought me into a world of refugees, from Rwanda, during the genocide, to Sudan, during the genocide, to Iraq, during the 2003 invasion. So, it was her ghostly face and sea green eyes I remembered when the refugee crisis in Europe arose.
This article talks about refugees that entered United States since WWII, their experience in America and the way Americans treated them. United States always have the concept of accepting refugees which is an easy task but to include them within the law has always been a slow process. For example, they always failed to provide additional admissions for the Jewish refugees before and after WWII. After WWII, the US congress passed refugee legislation and they still had some inequality against the Jews. In 1946 there were about 844000 refugees and was decided to settle them in different countries.
Ha is an example of the universal refugee experience because she goes through things that many other refugees go through, such as the feeling of being “inside out” and not belonging anywhere. Ha has to learn a new language and a whole new way of life, she has to give up many of her old traditions and ways of life like many refugees do. A universal refugee experience is something that is experienced by not all, but most refugees. Ha started out stubborn and forceful before they fled their home, "I decided to wake before dawn and tap my big toe on the tile floor first," (Lai 2). Ha is angry that only men 's feet bring good luck and she will not let that be the case for she wants to bring luck to her family.
The estimated number of refugees leaving their own country since World War II is one hundred million ("Refugee”). A refugee is a person who has left their country because of fear of their safety due to violence, race, religion, or war. Supporting and solving today’s refugee crisis is especially controversial because of the current events, financing, and security issues. ("Refugee Facts”). Climate change and natural disasters sometimes cause people to leave their homes or countries.
http://vimeo.com/74987092 8. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status on Refugees and its 1967 Protocol defines a refugee by: a. A person who is not in the country of their origin or their
War in Syria DBQ Essay Since the beginning of the Syrian war in 2011, many have fled the country and settled in the neighboring states, including Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. Currently, there are 4 million Syrian refugees registered in the region. By mid-2015, the World Bank’s estimated cost of the Syrian war for the Middle Eastern countries is $35 billion. This load is too heavy to endure, and this is why refugees have been aiming for European countries for a couple of years now.
In the article, "Desperation at sea" by Rebecca Zissou discusses how refugee 's are having to flee their homes because of war. First, the refugee 's are all going from Syria, Gambia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan to Libya because of war, disease, poverty, etc. Also they have to cross the harsh heat and terrain of the Sahara desert just to get to Libya. After that, the refugee 's have to pay people to get them over to Europe for safety but they could get a very bad deal from sometimes very untrustworthy people. In addition, the so called smugglers might abandon them on the boat with little to no food, water, fuel, and in most conditions the refugee 's don 't know their way to Europe.
Approximately 4.8 million refugees have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. Additionally, 6.6 million refugees are internally displaced inside of Syria. Most of these refugees are being treated as if they aren’t equal members of society, their rights are being stripped from them and they are being dehumanized through various poor treatment. Martin Luther King fought for the freedom of black people because they weren’t being given fair rights as equal human beings, they were being seen as lower than society, which is exactly what is happening to Syrian refugees. In some cases refugees aren’t only being treated as if they aren’t equal contributing members of society, but they are being completely disregarded in general.
Not only that, but they do it by the millions, moving in independent crowds step by step on the grounds that there is security (Acuesta, 2017). The explanations for their movement include issues such as social, racial, religious and political persecution, war, climate change, hunger and gender orientation. These vulnerable refugees have no other choice than to seek protection and we are denying their human rights and stripping away their human dignity. A United Nations Refugee Agency survey conducted in Australia in 2011 showed that 35% of people favoured turning back boats or detention of arrivals and deportation, while only 22% favoured eligibility for permanent settlement. Clearly there is much controversy surrounding this issue as it can create many effects within a nations, both positive and negative.
I chose this topic because I read an article on the Internet stating that the refugee crisis worldwide has displaced 60 million people from their homes since the end of World War II pushing asylum to their limits. That article stated the threat countries are facing as they are fleeing from countries like Syria and Iraq to places like Central America and Africa to seek asylum. I want to research whether countries should be morally obligated to give asylum to refugees. I want to also find out what causes this problem, what effects and consequences this will have on the country. Finally I want to obtain a possible course of action to try to put an end to this problem.
Leaders and governments around the world have labelled refugees as being a burden on their country either directly or indirectly. These leaders only see them as people who are trying to get into their country to escape the civil war, but fail to see that the refugees are also risking their lives in the process. At present, there are approximately 54.5 million refugees that are displaced, the largest refugee crisis the world has ever seen and they have nowhere to go. The question of doing the right thing and taking them in has been squashed due to various reasons and it appears to be that each country has adopted the ‘each man for himself’ policy by stating that it is their duty to only look after its citizens and no one else.
There are many different types of war that could cause a person to become a refugee these include
The European refugee crisis is undoubtedly a massive problem, but with every problem, there is a