Refugees In Congo Research Paper

The United Nations approach on the treatment of refugees is as follows. the Convention relating to the status of Refugees 1967 Protocol defines who a refugee is and explains what Rights countries should afford to refugees. A refugee is a person who is outside of their own country and is unable or unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of their; race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political

During the Holocaust Jews went on boats to other country's but they kept getting denied. The Fresno family did not go to that boat. St.Louis did get on that boat and sailed to many country's. While they were on the ship after a long time of sailing the ship most people started to feel queasy. They went to the U.S. and also Cuba, but both of them had denied them. That is one difference they had between them.

As the head of a small aid agency in Congo, our duty is to cater the refugee’s health dilemmas and concerns. We must attend to their needs by providing them the right health services suited for their condition. Like what is happening in the camp, the refugees are in need of cornea transplant because of the poor water condition which resulted to them being blind. Therefore, we must do any possible means of giving them enough corneas and adequate protection they need by figuring out how to eliminate the peculiar parasite in the water. Aside from that, incoming refugees would be possible knowing that civil war is happening at the moment so we also need to accommodate them

-According to the UNHCR, the people most in need of assistance are the ones forced to leave their homes due to political conflict. These people have little or nothing, lack of access to clean water, sanitation, and medical care. The UNHCR sends emergency assistance to these refugees,

There is a possible solution. First the U.N.H.C.R can give these refugees a temporary home, food, and water. The U.N.H.C.R wants to help refugees and wants everyone to have a chance.

In the past, many incidents of genocide have occurred, like the Armenian genocide or the Rwandan genocide. While these incidents may seem unrelated to current times, similar incidents are starting to occur in many parts of the world and one such place is Congo. Many sources hint that the conflict that occurs in Congo is a genocide because many elements of genocide appear in the conflict like classification or dehumanization. While what they say has some truth in the sense that this conflict contains some element of genocide but, not enough elements are present to make it a genocide. Although many would believe that the conflict in Congo is a genocide, there is evidence of the conflict being a territorial and power dispute because some countries invading Congo want the resources, others want power, and the cause of the conflict in Congo is the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.

In the year 1876, King Leopold II of Belgium began to display an interest in the civilization mission in Africa. The documents on European Imperialism provide evidence for how the individuals in the Congo are being exploited for European benefit, under the profit-making aim of King Leopold II. European brutality in the Congo was the logical result of the European desire to implement ‘proper’ civilization in the Congo, albeit through a lack of cultural understanding and compassion towards the people of Congo.

This is a tale of horror and tragedy in the Congo, beginning with the brutal and exploitative regime of King Leopold II of Belgium, and culminating with the downfall of one of Africa’s most influential figures, Patrice Lumumba. The Congo is but one example of the greater phenomenon of European occupation of Africa. The legacy of this period gives rise to persistent problems in the Congo and throughout Africa. Understanding the roots and causes of this event, as focused through the lense of the Congo, is the subject of this paper.

Refugees. There are a large number of them, but what does that mean? Well, according to US Citizen and Immigration Services, refugees are, “people who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of race, religion, nationality, and/or membership in a particular social group or political opinion.” (USCIS, 2015) In other words, they are pushed out of their country for fear of their lives. This then creates the issue of where they end up. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are about 21.3 million known refugees worldwide. Of that 21.3 million, are 4.9 million that come from Syria. Also, the UNHCR notes that the top three hosting countries are Turkey, Pakistan, and Lebanon (which as of 2015, had 183 refugees for every 1,000 residents). (UNHCR, 2016) However, the US, which has a huge expanse, is not on the list. According to the Washington Post, the US has met its goal of granting asylum to 10,000 Syrians in the past fiscal year, but that is still not a large number compared to other countries. Such as Canada, which “with a population barely a tenth the size of the United States’, has resettled three times more Syrian refugees since last fall.” (The Washington Post, 2016). This issue of what to do with refugees is looked at in the three articles that will be discussed in this paper.

My presentation is about the Somalis refugees’ crisis, and I have chosen this issue because people do not by much attention to problems that happen in African countries.

Our accomplishments include our home-visit support program that continues to empower refugee families with household management skills; and supporting and interpreting for them through crisis situations; English literacy classes; and our healthy family programing, which for the last four years has hosted a health and wellness resource picnic catering to the African refugee communities specifically, and the larger Milwaukee communities in general. The picnic also celebrates and shares aspects of the African culture. In 2016, we were the recipient of a Reasons for Hope MLK fund grant. We were able to host a successful social event that promoted peace and understanding among Asian, Latina, African American, and African immigrant/refugee communities

I am interested in an opportunity to intern with the African Refugee Development center. My goal is to help people meet their greatest challenges in their darkest times and empower them about change and opportunities. Now that I have finished my first degree, I am ready to broaden my range of volunteer work before I apply for a masters degree in psychology. I truly believe my purpose is to help others. I believe it would be an excellent opportunity to develop my interest in social change and psychology, a field I wish to study and pursue professionally in the future. If the African Refugee Development center has a need for a dedicated Intern, I would be thrilled to have the opportunity to aid.

In 2011, Dadaab, Kenya received an influx over a hundred forty thousand new immigrants fleeing the effects of a severe drought in Somalia. Currently, the total population of refugees living in both official UNHCR camps, as well as the unofficial camps that surround these, is approaching half a million people. The Dadaab refugee camp is well beyond the capacity it was built for and is struggling to keep up with the demand. Children are among the most unfortunate victims. Not only do some die even before making to the camp because of the treacherous journey that must be taken to get there, but it is also estimated that nearly thirty percent of the refugee children are malnourished. This paper will examine the UNHCR's response to the crisis that is crisis that is occurring in Kenya and discus what actions might be taken to help mitigate further suffering.

I have chosen to investigate whether immigrants should interact with host peoples or establish marginal communities away from the culture of their destination. Egypt is grappling with these troubles today. The movement of Sudanese refugees to Egypt can be dated to the 19th century, when Sudan was part of Egypt, under British colonial rule. Up until the late nineteen-eighties, most of the early Sudanese who moved to Egypt were northerners and were able to take advantage of bilateral treaties between the two countries, giving Sudanese many of the same rights as Egyptian nationals. However, after the failed assassination attempt that targeted President Mubarak, in which Islamists allegedly backed by the Sudanese government were implicated, the Egyptian government revoked all treaties that gave special privileges to Sudanese in Egypt. Since then, the Sudanese in Egypt were subjected to the laws governing the status and rights of foreigners. Tensions between the Sudanese and Egyptians are rising at an incredible rate. The migrants need to avoid frequent interaction with host peoples and instead establish marginal communities to maintain civil rights, be able to have free education, lead healthy lives, practice their own religion, be safe, and attain employment.

In the aftermath of the WWII and the beginning of the Cold War tensions, the UNHCR began its mandate of addressing the issues of refugees as defined by the 1951 Geneva Convention with thirty-three staff and a $30,000 budget (Feller, 2001:131). Reflecting post-colonial European hegemonic structure and ignoring the upheavals of decolonisation in the ‘Third World,’ geographic and temporal limitations were embedded within the definition of a refugee. The convention recognises persons displaced before the first of January 1951 within the European geographical region (Nygh, 2000 and Loescher et al., 2008). Thus, the mandate of the UNHCR was apparently limited to the protection of refugees displaced before the drafting of the 1951 Geneva Convention and only within Europe. At this time, because of the strategic aims of the Cold War period and demand for labour, “refugees were welcomed noncitizens in many [European] countries” (Feller, 2001:129). In other words, the refugee regime was designed to provide geopolitical and economic responses to mass displacement due to Nazism and communism.