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The Problem Of A Refugee Essay

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The definition of a refugee, according to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, is an individual who due to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a political group, is outside his/her national country, and is unable to find protection in his/her national country. People who move in groups to avoid war or civil conflict are often considered as refugees. A refugee isn 't an individual who is stateless or denied entrance into a country. Instead the term "internally displaced people" (IDP) is used to define those individuals who may have moved for the same reasons as refugees but have not crossed the border. Recently Europe had a migration crisis, in which more than a million refugees crossed into Europe, causing a division in the European Union regarding the best way to deal with resettling people. This problem has caused the EU to relocate most of their refugees in Italy and Greece. Between the years 2010 and 2015 there has been a major spike in the number of refugees trying to find asylum. Due to this spike this has led to the European refugee crisis, in which there have been accidents with transportation and overpopulation. According to the UNHCR, the top three nationalities of the refugees, between January 2015 and March 2016 were Syria, Afghan, and Iraq. In 2015 the demographic of refugees and migrants, were 58% men, 17% women, and 25% children. The number of deaths hit an all time high in April 2015, when five

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