Refugees

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This post was written in August 2016, I was able to retrieve it from my old host server after being shutdown

Short introduction to Refugees.
To classify Refugees, Egon F. Kunz divided them into three distinct groups according to their attitudes towards their displacement.

  1. Those refugees whose opposition to political and social events at home is shared with their compatriots at home, are called: Majority identified Refugees. This type of Refugees is most likely to participate in a repatriation. (Syria)
  2. Those who left their home areas because of discrimination against the group to which they belong and feel irreconcilably alienated from their fellow citizens are called: Event Related Refugees. This type of refugees feels themselves unwanted and unsafe in their own homelands, and their return to their countries can only be possible were there substantial change at home. (Rwanda; Ethnic Cleansing)
  3. Those who decided to leave their home country for a variety of individual reasons, are called: Self-Alienated Refugees.
Double Impact of Refugees on host countries:
  • Negative: Locals and Refugees compete on scares resources. (e.g. water, schools, health facilities). Underpins the state’s rationale for keeping refugees in camps.
  • Positive: Refugees increase the overall welfare of the host community, in two ways:
    • International Refugee Assistance.
    • Economic activities of refugees.
Presence of Refugees increases the overall welfare of the host community. This is happens by two ways:
  • International Refugee Aids
  • Economic Activities of Refugees
Though the assistance of International Refugee Aids is intended for refugees in camps, it finds its way into the host community. Many international refugee agencies make relief assistance available to local people so as to increase the receptiveness of the host community to refugees.
UNHCR ‘s handbook for emergencies states that in situations where there are tensions between refugees and the local population, one of the measures to be considered is: “Benefiting the local community through improvements in infrastructure in the areas of water, health, roads, etc.”
Security Problems:
Refugee influx presents a challenge to one of the key principles of state sovereignty: the control of borders and non-citizens in the country. The most serious of these problems is cross-border raids and the import of conflict from the sending country. Armed incursions by sending country government forces occurs as search-and-destroy missions aimed at rebels. (Reyhanli Bombing, ISIS Bombings)
The difficulty of separating bona fide refugees from combatants and criminals means that criminals often live among refugees. (Sleeping cells)
The problem of separating combatants and criminals from refugees increases the public perception that “all” refugees are a problem. Which creates a huge social issues between locals and refugees. (e.g. crimes which happened between Syrians and locals in Turkey).



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