In the article “The Migrant Crisis” the author brings up an important issue that is affecting globalization, immigration. An interesting, and well horrible, thing that was mentioned in the beginning of the article was the condition people in Africa go through to get to Europe. They are crammed into small boats with dozens of others and sail for hours and hours like that. Another fact interesting fact was that there have been more refugees since World War 2. Imagine the number for refugees then, and now there are even more. A third interesting fact is that “... Smartphones are a migrant’s best friend”. You would think that in a less developed country there would be little to no use for a smartphone, but they are actually very important. In
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Southern European countries are having unemployment problems and too many refugees coming into their countries. “With unemployment rates already staggeringly high in several southern European countries... many fear having to also compete with migrants for jobs.” (Pg 17). Greece is one of the countries that have had a lot of refugees come in and as that is a good thing, because they are not in war zone anymore, they are causing problems already to become bigger. Greece is already at an alarming unemployment rate of 25%, with refugees coming into the country this rate is bound to go up. The country can not already take care of their own people and now they have to take care of even more people. Greece’s debt could drop and the country could file for bankruptcy which they almost did the summer of 2015. Hungary is starting to fear having too many migrants enter their country, they have been building a wall to keep them out. Europe countries are not prepared for this many immigrants and refugees. As sad as it is to for readers to realize, some of these country probably will turn down and send actual refugees back, because they have no way to take care of any of them. Even though some of Europe’s natural increase rates are negative (the population is decreasing) not many are able to get to
Southern European countries are having unemployment problems and too many refugees coming into their countries. “With unemployment rates already staggeringly high in several southern European countries... many fear having to also compete with migrants for jobs.” (Pg 17). Greece is one of the countries that have had a lot of refugees come in and as that is a good thing, because they are not in war zone anymore, they are causing problems already to become bigger. Greece is already at an alarming unemployment rate of 25%, with refugees coming into the country this rate is bound to go up. The country can not already take care of their own people and now they have to take care of even more people. Greece’s debt could drop and the country could file for bankruptcy which they almost did the summer of 2015. Hungary is starting to fear having too many migrants enter their country, they have been building a wall to keep them out. Europe countries are not prepared for this many immigrants and refugees. As sad as it is to for readers to realize, some of these country probably will turn down and send actual refugees back, because they have no way to take care of any of them. Even though some of Europe’s natural increase rates are negative (the population is decreasing) not many are able to get to