identify to be true, the struggle for freedom in Syria is a battle that is displacing many citizens of that region. Throughout the media, there are reports of political leaders taking different stands and positions on the Syrian refugee crisis and displacement in the Middle East. According to Webster’s dictionary, the definition of displacement is “to force (people or animals) to leave the area where they live”. More recently, the voices of today’s officials have been heard saying things like, keep
The Refugee Crisis Nothing ever stays in the place it stars; everything has a habit of spreading. Throughout history, problems rarely ended in the places they started. Like the plague, Ebola, WWI/II, communism, the Arab spring, and now the Syrian crisis. The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across the Middle East in early 2011. The Arab spring protest against al-Assad’s Syrian government in the spring of 2011 evolved into an armed conflict
The term refugee has been used a lot lately in the news and other media outlets. As Americans when we hear or think about a refugee, we always think of others. We think of the displaced Syrians and the children of war in Africa, we think of refugees from Afghanistan and those migrating here from the Middle East fearing prosecution of their oppressed governments; hardly ever we give a thought of such term in association with an American. Our responsibility as global citizens in the Middle Eastern refugee
Katie Gillis Kazue Takamura November 16, 2015 The European Migrant Crisis: Understanding a Historical Anomaly The influx of Syrian refugees to Europe in the past year has sparked what is being called the ‘European Migrant Crisis’ and has drawn attention and the concern of the international community. In spite of the majority of Syrian refugees remaining in the region (in either Turkey, Lebanon or Jordan) the arrival of over 700,000 refugees in Europe has tested the limitations of political infrastructure
to stop updating the death toll in Syria because they have found that information from Syria and the surrounding region is no longer verifiable (UNCHR, 2014). The UN’s Refugee Agency (UNCHR) (2014) has noted that 2.4 million Syrians have registered as refugees, but they estimate that there are, in fact many more unregistered Syrian refugees escaping through the Iraq border. Globalization and its negative implications for Syria Globalization has had negative implications for the nation of Syria.
The Syrian Conflict and the European Refugee Crisis In the past few months Europe has received the most amounts of migrants and refugees since the end of the Second World War. The majority of refugees seeking asylum in European countries are from the war-torn state of Syria. The destabilization of the Middle East from the Arab Spring and intervention from western nations has led to violence, poverty, and fear to spread throughout the region. Since the mid 1960’s, Syria, the nation nestled within
involved in the Syrian civil war, such as the United States and Turkey, who are backing the rebels, and Russia and Iran, who are supporting Assad’s government (BBC News). Though there is much more to this conflict, it is evident that the regime of President Assad and the rise of ISIS have contributed to the displacement of approximately 11 million Syrians. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Germany and Sweden have opened their borders to 64% of the Syrian refugees applying
The Syrian civil war has caused what is internationally recognized as the most serious refugee and displacement crisis of modern history. This war has lasted for about six years and has displaced roughly eleven million Syrian citizens. Of that eleven million, about six million are displaced in Syria and the other five million have fled the country. The five million people who have left Syria and are seeking asylum have become what is referred to as the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Neighboring countries
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 doors to more than 10,000 Syrian refugees. Although the idea of showing
The bulk of my experience working with refugees and displaced persons comes from my time working in the Kachin Statement of Myanmar. As described above, I did various education and community development work in a serious of refugee and internationally displaced camps (IDP) on the border of China and Myanmar. I have also done work with displaced persons in Morocco when I studied abroad in my internship at a local nonprofit that provided courses and basic life necessities for displaced persons. Finally