European Migrant And Refugee Crisis Analysis

An Analysis on the European Migrant/Refugee Crisis Amidst a migrant and refugee crisis the European Union and its Member States have not, in the view of the Medecine Sans Frontieres (MSF), met their respective promises of aiding the people most in need. As highlighted by the MSF rejecting E.U. funding and stating that they do so, “‘...in protest at their shameful deterrence policies and their intensification of efforts to push people back from European shores,’” (“Europe” 1). Many of the E.U. policies currently in place, such as the E.U.-Turkey deal, provide no actual relief to the migrant/refugees. As pointed out by the MSF many of the E.U. policies are targeted towards easing people away from European shores and not actually looking for …show more content…
These migrants/refugees come from countries in the Middle East and Africa that have war raging within them. Many of the articles I encountered manly depict the E.U., with mentions of the U.S., not completing their promise to aid in the migrant/refugee crisis. Although the pretense of assistance has been made it can be discerned that the E.U.’s main focus is not on granting asylum to those in need of it, but rather finding a way to deflect them to stay in encampments or return home. In fact the E.U. has shut its borders and has been using Greece as a overcrowded holding pen for migrants/refugees. The key elements of the story is the growing migrant/refugee crisis in Europe and the E.U., along with other nations, not meeting their own quotas of granting asylum to those migrant/refugees. Nothing has really been done and for the most part it seems like the E.U. has all but forgotten about the crisis at hand. The main thing that kept changing throughout my research was the way the issue of the migrant/refugee crisis was perceived. Some articles emphasized that if asylum was granted to the migrants/refugees the amount of terrorist attacks within Europe would skyrocket. On the other hand many articles also exclaimed that the migrants/refugees were just …show more content…
We are more than halfway over with 2016 and no concrete resolution has been offered to take care of the situation. If anything it seems as though many people, including those in charge, have forgotten about all of the people anxiously waiting to hear good news after living the nightmare of war. The E.U. is not only making little to no progress in processing migrant/refugee asylum requests, it is also not sending the proper aid to the encampments. Conditions are so dire that as many as 30 people, many times including infants, are crammed into tiny shelter containers (Alderman 1). If we cannot give these people relief through granting them asylum the least we could do is offer a break from living in uncertainty and disarray. Yet the nations that proudly say they are amongst the most advanced on the planet can’t be bothered to address the suffering of other fellow humans who should hold the same basic human rights as they do. In all actuality the E.U. is not having to deal with a majority of migrants due to Greece and Italy being burdened with preventing most if not all of the illegal and dangerous smuggling and identification of migrants/refugees (John 1). The policies that have been passed concerning the migrants/refugees only seem to be doing more harm than good. In Kenya European migrant policies were cited in justification of closing the world 's largest refugee