The European Refugee Crisis: The Struggles of Survival and Acceptance in a New Land
The European refugee crisis is a current event that is incredibly important and has only recently received the media coverage it deserves. This is a topic that I knew of but did not know much about before taking this class. After doing several readings, I am very interested in learning more about this very significant event that is currently happening in Europe right now. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss and analyze the terms “migrant” and “refugee” and what they really mean, how the presence of borders or lack thereof especially in the Schengen zone affects the journeys of migrants and refugees, and various articles that support this. Over the past year, there has been a controversy on how many refugees should be allowed across European borders. According to an article on BBC, over one million people have crossed Europe’s borders trying to claim asylum and refugee status since December 2015. Over 50,000 have crossed over since the beginning of the year in January and the numbers show no signs of slowing down. Issues have risen in the European Union (EU) due to counties such as Greece, Hungary, and Italy where refugees are arriving in large numbers by boat. Members of the EU are negotiating to try to make refugee distribution more equal amongst the countries. Already, they have agreed to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next two decades. In some areas, it is more dangerous
In the final draft I will expand on each of the issues, by looking into more specific examples of both what different European countries are doing policy wise, as well as what the sentiment is among the refugees in the different areas of Europe. To fully be able to understand the conditions the refugees are facing I will be using other scholars ethnography work; One of those works being Katerina Rozakou’s piece regarding the management of refugees in Greece. As a result of that knowledge I will be able to come to an accurate conclusion as to what course of action should be taken in Europe as a whole, to deal with this ongoing
Freely accepting the migrants would be a much better solution. Moreover, distribution of refugees calculated according to host country population or gross domestic product was a gross simplification and unworkable. Also, possibilities of integration of the migrants in particular countries should be taken into consideration. Equally important is the dialogue of all the 28 EU member countries concerning common solutions for asylum policy. Additionally, the
The European migrant crisis began in 2015 when there was an influx of refugees coming into the European Union through southern European countries and by way of the Mediterranean Sea. An extremely large portion of these refugees came from Syria and Iraq. One of the leading causes of the mass migration was war and unrest and the consequent rise of insurgency groups such as ISIS within these people’s home countries. As their homes and cities have become unfit to live in any longer, people have been driven to seek asylum in European countries. Greece and other southern European countries like
Thousands and thousands of migrants have begun to flood into the European countries. With immigration numbers higher than ever, these countries have begun to search for solutions. Some countries have considered closing their borders , many are beginning to show violence to keep people out. As always, there is a much better solution other than using violence. The Europe Migration Policy needs to be adjusted to current needs and these countries need to work together to create better opportunities for the immigrants and refugees seeking safety.
Accepting refugees in Europe has become a highly controversial problem in the past few months. Without a doubt, a large number of lives could be saved due to this ethical action; however, there has been a significant rise in protesting refugees. We should consider carefully the advantages and disadvantages of such a substantial
This article explains and show the immigration crisis today in Europe and how it might still yet to get worst. In Europe as it is today, has been serving as a major ground for immigrant refugees. There is over sixty million displaced people and refugees, numbers not even heard of during the period of WW2 coming from not only seria but from other regions like Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and even Haiti. The must striking thing about this crisis, is that it is still expected to get worst. Say if the tailaban keep trying to extend their territorial gains across Afghanistan, this will force afghans to want to migrate. Due to this attacks, about one hundred thousand afghans are expected to migrate to Europe this year. These numbers increase daily as these refugees try to escape thier home countries due to terrosm or other unpeace conditions. For example many inhaptants of Iraq are already homeless, daily amid wartime shortages of food and medicine and persistent bombardment by Isis . Yemen is not much farther away from Europe than eritia now the biggest source of African refugees, just across the Red Sea, and at some 25 million it is as. According to numerous interviews conducted, Nigeria which has a
Refugees “Today, more than 14 million men, women, and children have been forced to flee their homes, towns, and countries because they are afraid to stay” (Gevert, “Refugees: Who, Where, Why”). Refugees come from all over the world to seek protection to escape their country from war, poverty, disease and natural disasters. A refugee is a person who is forced their home because of a fear for their lives to stay.
The numbers involved are huge and the resistance in Europe to taking so many is serious and becoming more entrenched. The answer, on paper, is to share the burden fairly between European countries, on the one hand, and between Europe and the region from which most refugees come, on the other. The first difficulty is that the more generous countries, which also happen to be those that are the preferred migrant destinations, soon felt overwhelmed. They began to impose some controls.
Refugees from all over the world has been running for their lives going to refugee to refugee camps trying to find a better life, so they can be exported to the U.S. to find a better life. How many refugees are there? About 65.3 million people have been displayed in refugee homes, because something terrible has happened to their homes. As an example, Ha from the novel Inside out and back again by Thanhha Lai, is a 10 year old girl who lives in Saigon,Vietnam who has to flee her home because of terrorist has taken over her country. All refugees lives turn inside out when they all leave from their homes to become a refugee, but then it turns back again because all refugees gets useful in their life in the U.S. .
Over the years more and more refugees,migrants come and go to different countries and from different countries.
Lately, in the Middle East and North Africa have been facing some difficulty in their country and for slightly for some years now have been attempting to flee their countries and go to Libya and Greece to escape the terrible push factors that affect their country. These factors range from civil war to increasing amount of human trafficking in most of their countries. “The migrants — mostly from Eritrea and Somalia — each had paid thousands of dollars to a gang of human traffickers, who raped and tortured many of the migrants before the disaster.” (Trawler Fire leads to hundreds of deaths near Sicilian Island).The human trafficking is becoming terrible in places such as Eritrea and Somalia. While the civil war is actually
This article focuses on the migration policy in Europe and the author, Nicole Gelinas, discusses why she disagrees with the current system in place. The article beings by reviewing the number of migrants that have died while migrating out of hostile areas into safe havens. While there have been some deaths during the migration process, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made it easier for people seeking asylum in Germany. Gelinas argues why Germany’s migration process has been detrimental to the system, however, this is not the case at all. Since Chancellor Merkel has changed the requirements, it has opened the doors for more people to seek safety from hostile areas that they live in.
As Migrants are quickly flooding Europe, the world is yet to discover history’s most dangerous border crossing. On April 19, more than 600 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean when their boat capsized traveling from Africa to Italy. On April 12, about 400 people died in a different shipwreck, and currently in 2015, 1,600 migrants have lost their lives in attempt to cross the Mediterranean, and experts fear that the number of deaths will only increase as time continues. EU member states have received 216,300 applications asking for safety within a country from mistreated men, women, and families. A large number of these people are fleeing from Syria, which is currently in a civil war, Eritrea, which is harshly ruled by one person, and Mali, currently fighting a civil war as well.
The refugees are coming unidentified and sometimes unknown by the governments and border control. Because of this, it leads to an increased tension between European nations on how to control the borders and prevent undocumented asylum seekers from entering
Since 2011, Syria has been engaged in a Civil War with protestors against the government and members of the extremist group ISIS, and approximately 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes (usnews.com 2015). As the conflict destroys more homes and livelihoods each year, an increasing number of civilians have been forced to leave Syria and try to find safety elsewhere. Already a contentious issue, the Syrian refugee crisis has awakened tensions, both economic and social as debate erupts over what to do with the refugees.In response to the crisis, while some countries like Germany have pledged to help the refugees, (New Statesman 2015 1) only 2,340 have been admitted. Clearly, more needs to be done in order to help the refugees. Although there are economic and population concerns to be considered, the humanitarian conflict that faces the refugees and solutions already available are reason enough for Europe to increase the numbers of Syrian refugees allowed in.