The 2015 Middle Eastern Refugee Crisis Essay

RESPONDING TO THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS: UNITED STATES, JORDAN, AND EUROPE Nels Romerdahl University of Hawaii Maui College Destabilization of Syria The advances in social media, have allowed for real-time coverage of protests from around the world. In late 2010, a series of revolutions began in the Middle East. This movement became quickly known as the Arab Spring. One of the main reasons behind uprisings was persecution of minorities, poverty, and autocratic rulers (Hamid, 2011). As a result

The estimated number of refugees since World War II is one hundred million ("Refugee”). Supporting and solving today’s refugee crisis is especially controversial because of the current events, financing, and security issues. A refugee is a person who has left their country because of fear of their safety due to violence, race, religion, or war ("Refugee Facts”). Climate change and natural disasters sometimes cause people to leave their homes or countries. Some examples of these natural disasters

Mike Carper Mrs. Bardine English 12 6 October 2015 European Refugee Crisis The ongoing migrant and refugee crisis in Europe has recently grown to new heights and is the biggest, most deadly one in the world. Migrants and refugees from the Middle East have been finding risky, unorthodox ways to flee from their different countries to seek shelter in a new safer country in the European Union for many years now. This crisis has only recently drawn the media’s attention because of its rapid increase

The world is experiencing it’s “worst refugee crisis since World War II” (The Worst Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of). Refugees, along with having to leave their possessions and family behind in their usually war-torn or violent country, face many additional issues that are cause for the concern. Despite the United Nations’ best efforts, refugee camps are not equipped with the sufficient amount of food, medical care, and shelter for the thousands of people that pour into them everyday. With that in

According to The UN refugee agency (UNCHR) approximately 11 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of the civil war from which 4.8 million have fled to neighboring countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq and over 6.6 million are internally displaced within Syria. This refugee crisis in the Middle East is one of the greatest and most complex humanitarian crises of this generation. Since such large numbers of people have already left for most of the neighboring countries

Under international law, refugees were not allowed to be forced back to the countries they have fled. A refugee was commonly known as someone who has been proved for having fear of being victimize for reasons such as religion, membership of a particular social group outside his or her country and was incapable to gain protection from their country. Usually, refugees were forced to escape their home, often leaving almost all their belongings behind. Thus, resulting them to be poor. They would walk

views that greatly differ from that of Americans, and the American “values and way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists,” and that the terrorists can create carnage of epic proportions. ISIS members have been seen exploiting the refugee crisis to get into other countries to do their share of damage. For example, when Germany accepted their large number of refugees, “Within the space of a week, the country saw assaults… three of the four attacks were committed by asylum seekers, two

than four million refugees fled to these lands and thousands more fled to other countries. Now in 2015 the refugee count is up to over 4,000,000 refugees along with more refugees crossing in European Union member states (Rogers, "Syria: The story of the conflict - BBC News"). Now these European countries face the issue of holding more population than the government was designed to provide for. The crisis of the refugees is also beginning to spread to the United States. Michigan is willing to open its

security aspect. Janice Kephart writes about how the United States has a lenient immigration system, which could be the reason that the US suffered from the attacks on 9/11. Kephart came to that conclusion after she explored the cases, of about 94 Middle Eastern men that were involved in the plotting of terror attacks in U.S. soil; in each case, she studied their immigration background. Her study seeks to expand the discussion of how “terrorists use our immigration system to enter and embed in the United

Hi, I’m Marcelina. I’m John. We’re here on BluJ Radio to talk about the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the United States’ response to this ongoing human rights concern. We’ll be asking you a number of questions and spouting off facts here and there. We ask you to form your own thoughts and opinions on this important social justice matter. We hope you’ll listen in and keep an open mind. Okay, so the Syrian Refugee Crisis. What exactly is going on? Before you can understand what’s happening to the people