Persuasive Essay On Refugees

In the year 2014 approximately 59.5 million people were fleeing their countries and crossing international borders looking for refuge, which made them refugees, or were forced out of their homes, but remained in their country for any number of reasons, making them internally displaced people (IDPs). This is a major global issue as there have always been people in these situations, and there still are. We need to attempt to resolve these issues, and we need to do it soon. The question that has to be asked is why are these people forced to leave their home countries in the first place, and what should outside governments do to help?
Refugees and internally displaced people flee their homes for the same reasons. They have become fearful and feel unsafe in their homes, because of persecution, war or violence. The differences between them are, because …show more content…
To attempt to help governments have donated money to charities to allow volunteers in helping the refugees and internally displaced people. As well, as to bring people to their countries. This will help greatly in the short term timeline, but not in the long term timeline; the people need opportunities to provide for themselves. They need support at first to begin a better lifestyle when they move here, of course, but the economy is not going to solve this global issue on its own, we need the politics as well. When governments welcome the refugees to their countries, rather than supporting them for up to one year or until they can provide for themselves, as Canada is doing, we should also assist them in finding employment as soon as possible and encourage them to. They would most likely be willing to as soon as possible, and it would not if barely affect the economy of the countries, if it did at all, but it would drastically better the life of the refugees. It would give them the