Refugee Crisis
Blogged By Brandon
Please note:Photo credits at end of post.
Population migration is the process through a population migrating from one country to another. This process mostly happens due to populations being forced to leave their homes. As shown in the image below people are often forced to flee with next to no supplies, due to being forced to flee their homes. And often everything they have in order to escape.
What is a Refugee?
“A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or hercountry because of persecution, war, or violence.”(1) This often means refugees will do almost anything to escape their country. Often risking their life and travelling great distances to escape their country. This often involves unsafely fleeing a country such as overcrowding on a small boat.
As shown, these refugees are sinking. This happened due to overloading the small unsafe boat.
Why Care?
This is an issue that affects almost all countries, for these refugees have to be able to go somewhere. For it would be inhumane, not to accept them into other countries. Just over 40,000 syrian refugees have been welcomed into Canada since 2015.(2) This is a big deal for it allowing refugees a new home. As well as bringing thousands of jobs into Canada. But Canada is not alone with a lot of other countries accepting refugees.
Ongoing Crisis
After violence broke out in Myanmar’s state on 25 August, more than 500,000 Rohingya refugees crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh in less than five weeks. Tens of thousands of refugees have arrived since, fleeing discrimination, violence and persecution, as well as isolation and fear.”(3) This is just one example of an ongoing refugee Crisis. These refugees will need to be welcomed into other countries, in order to have a chance at a second life. As well as face many hardships along the way. This is just one example of the severity of the refugee crisis.
References
Refugees. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://realitynews.international/tag/refugees/
(first photo of fleeing refugees)
Lethal farce in Aegean Sea continues as another refugee boat sinks off Lesbos. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-10-30/tragedy-continues-another-boat-sinks-lesbos (photo of first sinking boat)
Alfred, C. (2015, May 14). The Boat Of Starving Rohingya Refugees That No Country Will Take In. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/boat-people-photos_n_7283178.html
(second photo of sinking boat)
(1) What is a Refugee? Definition and Meaning. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.unrefugees.org/what-is-a-refugee/
(2) Government of Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Communications Branch. (2017, February 09). #WelcomeRefugees: Key figures. Retrieved from http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/welcome/milestones.asp
(3) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (n.d.). Joint Statement on the Rohingya Refugee Crisis. Retrieved from http://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2017/10/59e4c17e5/joint-statement-rohingya-refugee-crisis.html
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