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This was the Introduction, Thesis Statement, and Annotated Bibliography and now I need the rough draft at the bottom of the page was the first ideas and 2 cites.
A refugee is an individual that seeks shelter in a different country other than their own from a political, environmental or economic reason that directly threatens their lives (Sharma, 2015). The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) oversees the protection and livelihood of refugees under the international law, a practice that spans more than 100 years. The current statistics show refugees exceed 20 million individuals across the world (Sharma, 2015). This is a large population and represents a lot of displaced productivity. There are advantages and disadvantages related to refugees that fall on both the home and the hosting countries. The focus is ensuring the disadvantages are minimizing to the benefit of both countries to provide an environment that would minimize the suffering experienced by the refugees. This consideration promotes the chances of resolving the refugee crisis. Reversing the situation would ensure an aggregate increase in economic, social and political progress at a global level.
Increasing the global GDP and establishing effective income distribution plans should be able to satisfy the needs of the refugees as well as those of citizens in their own countries. Most of the conflicts leading to conflicts in particular countries arise from greed that allows a few powerful people to take a substantial part of the resources (Taylor, Filipski, Alloush, Gupta, Valdes, & Gonzalez-Estrada, 2016). Therefore, the conflicts ensure such countries lose their productive power in terms of labor and end up not maximizing the use of the resources. Meanwhile, the host country is showered by an influx of the workforce yet lack in a proper way to utilize their expertise. Furthermore, there never is a standard provision for refugees in policy nor resource wise. Therefore, development of proper absorption and utilization of the manpower for maximum production would not only stabilize the lives of the refugees but also allow them to reorganize their personal economic status in readiness for the trip back to their home country (Taylor, Filipski, Alloush, Gupta, Valdes, & Gonzalez-Estrada, 2016). Empowering refugees and providing stability makes it easy for them to transfer the effects to their home countries. Unfortunately, most of the refugee plans are never designed alongside this pattern. Most refugee plans hold onto the hosting section while awaiting the calm in the home country so as to start sending the refugees back. Unfortunately most of the feuding home countries have conflicts that persist indefinitely.
There are contentious issues that hinder potential reversal plans and allow the reality of refugee absolute empowerment to remain a pipe dream. The global refugee system in terms of protecting refugees is broken from the start (Dunn, 2016). The developed countries perceive the refugee crisis as a problem for other nations other their own. They employ closed border excuses and get horrified at the idea of being flooded by the unwanted foreigners. They are filthy rich but would not directly absorb refugees and only make demonstrations in pursuit of higher favors or recognition. Therefore, such nations have conveniently made it possible for developing countries deemed to be poor to physically accommodate a large refugee population comprising of 86% while selectively sharing the remaining 14% or less based on the deaths in transit (Dunn, 2016). The situation is getting worse as such developed countries have started to ignore requests for contribution to humanitarian aid while reducing their annual remittances to the United Nations bodies. In essence, this is adding more pressure on the resources of the hosting, yet poor nations. Critics of the complete empowerment programs site various social problems that come with refugees. They believe the refugees add to social vices, are psychologically unstable, are active carriers of regional diseases, and provide effective infrastructure for terrorism or smuggling businesses, among other reasons (Kastrup, 2016). Such inhibitions pull back full empowerment of the refugees and they are systematically limited in their new homes. Providing full settlement is one way of reversing the crisis because it allows the refugees more time to focus on solutions in their home countries. This involves hosting governments stopping racial discrimination and xenophobia (Kastrup, 2016).
Annotated Bibliography
Sharma, B. B. (2015). Revisiting the United Nations' 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: A Critical Analysis of the International Refugee Law. Social Development Issues, 37(2), 80-94.
The research carries an evaluation of the United Nations 1951 convention about the refugees' status. Furthermore, it explores the international refugee law that was enacted and promised exhaustive implementation of rights identified as essential for protecting refugees. This was an essential document in the wake of the effects of the Second World War characterized by the largest number of refugees. The book explores topics such as the disregard of human life, systematic mistreatment and forced displacement, with the aim of eliminating repeat incidences on how the refugees were handled during and after the war. The analysis contained in the book connects legal and historical contexts in line with liberty, fraternity and equality. This study is important in giving direction to some of the neglected provisions that made sense in history and can still apply to the reversal of the refugee crisis into a positive outlook.
Taylor, J. E., Filipski, M. J., Alloush, M., Gupta, A., Valdes, R. I. R., & Gonzalez-Estrada, E. (2016). Economic impact of refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201604566.
A survey in the year 2015 by the UNHCR indicated its accommodation of over 15 million refugees that were mostly in poor/ developing countries. The World Food Program fed the population both in kind or using money. This study acknowledges the limited yet controversial understanding of how the refugees impact the host country. The study explores three refugee camps in Rwanda of the Congolese people and the immediate radius of Ten kilometers. This study focus on the economic impact and the findings included the significant role played by the spillover effect of cash-aid to the surrounding region. Both households and businesses recorded some economic improvement where every time a single refugee adult was introduced to the camps and accesses cash-aid led to an increase in the annual real income ranging from $205 to a maximum of $253. There was also an increase in trade within the region and the rest of the country estimated through a range of 49 to 55 dollars. The aid in cash had a greater impact than the aid in kind.
Dunn, E. C. (2016). Refugee protection and resettlement problems. Science, 352(6287), 772-773.
The European Union saw an influx of refugees and migrants exceeding One million during the year 2015. This is a very tiny fraction of the global refugee population estimated to be approximately 59.5 million refugees in the same year. Humanitarian aid to serve the population had suddenly been on the decline leading to poor supply of basic needs and healthcare. The main study is in focused on Georgian refugee camps that had a faulty system of humanitarian assistance. The findings indicate the growing insufficient aid that hinders the progress of refugees. This study is important because it shows how developed nations are gradually distancing themselves from the refugee crisis and letting the developing countries to struggle with the same.
Kastrup, M. (2016). The impact of racism and discrimination on mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. European Psychiatry, 33, S43.
The increased terrorism in the recent decades is reflected in security concerns in the host country when dealing with refugees. The rights of refugees are constantly being violated under the anti-terrorism policies. The racism elements are also on the rise as well as the other discrimination aspects. Inequality and refugee perception is an additional source of stress to the already inconvenienced refugees. The consequences are development of secondary conflicts in the hosting country between the refugees and the residents or authorities. The psychological impact cannot also be ignored as more refugees continue to deteriorate health wise. This study explores the medical implications as well as ethical dilemmas encountered by both the refugees and the host country residents. The findings are important in determining the important role played by the host nation in either helping the refugees or making reversal of the refugee crisis an impossible pursuit.
References
Dunn, E. C. (2016). Refugee protection and resettlement problems. Science, 352(6287), 772-773.
Kastrup, M. (2016). The impact of racism and discrimination on mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. European Psychiatry, 33, S43.
Sharma, B. B. (2015). Revisiting the United Nations' 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:. A Critical Analysis of the International Refugee Law. Social Development Issues, 37(2), 80-94.
Taylor, J. E., Filipski, M. J., Alloush, M., Gupta, A., Valdes, R. I. R., & Gonzalez-Estrada, E. (2016). Economic impact of refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201604566.
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SOCIETY ISSUES
A refugee is someone fleeing from his country or is displaced to avoid war and cannot return home safely. They are sheltered by the international law, and will not be returned to their countries while their lives are at risk. The United Nations, high commission for refugees, has been facilitation the wellbeing of this less fortunate people for more than a century now. UNHCR records indicate that there are more than 20 million individuals in the world living as refugees (Sharma, 2015). The existence of refugees has both positive as well as negative to the socioeconomic order of the world.
The two countries, where the refugees are fleeing from and to both stand to benefit as well as suffer socioeconomic hardships. The host country will have pressure on its resources since the issue of having refugees is never planned nor factored in any policy. On the bright side, refugees bring in additional labor and market for products produced. The parent country will lose its source of labor.
The transatlantic trade and investment partnership is an aggressive, comprehensive, and high-level trade and investment pact between the United States and the European Union (Capaldo, 2015). The trade block was viewed to open up the market for the American made goods in the broader European market as well as provide opportunities for its expatriates and workforce. The onset of the arrangement is bound to have both positive and negative impacts to America.
The economic block allows for free movement of goods in terms of human labor and commodities. Business is expanded in the region, and a chance of specialization is created which goes a long way to enhance efficiency and cost reduction. The open market, however, may be a bad thing to the relatively slower economies as they will not be able to compete favourably. The developing industries in less stable states will fade to massive established competitions (Capaldo, 2015).
References
Capaldo, J. (2015). The trans-atlantic trade and investment partnership: European disintegration, unemployment and instability. Economia & lavoro, 49(2), 35-56.
Sharma, B. B. (2015). Revisiting the United Nations' 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:. A Critical Analysis of the International Refugee Law. Social Development Issues, 37(2), 80-94.