Essay On Refugees In Africa

However during the colonisation, natural resources, the soil and the people of Africa were exploited through Europe, Nowadays, Europe is the most industrialized continent on earth. The largest industrial zones are found in Western and Central Europe, England, Northern Italy, Ukraine, and European Russia. While Europe has been developing itself through the years, Africa and other continents have been fighting to assure their basic needs without success. There is still war, poverty, unsafety and unfairness in Africa. For this reasons many Africans are trying to emigrate to other part of the world in order to have a better future. The way they use to emigrate is not always the best. Many have died and are still dying in their attempt to cross the natural barriers between Africa and Europe, which is the Mediterranean Sea. The lucky one will cross and stay alive. Once on European territory another problem they all have to face is getting a permit of residence. For this reason they are forced to demand asylum in order to get a refugee status. The Geneva Convention defines Refugees as “a person who is outside their home country because they have suffered (or feared) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion; because they are a member of a persecuted social category of persons;

The detention, the asylum centers and the treatments of the asylum procedures are concretes examples. The fact that they differs in the members states, influence the choice of the asylum seeker. The most flexible member states receive more asylum seekers and are facing more difficulties in threating those procedures. The early effort is not effective enough and therefore a common EU-asylum policy is