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flood of cultural nationalism across the country. However, in recent years, Canada’s familiar reputation for being a peacekeeping nation quickly changed as a certain political party took over the country. Spending billions of dollars to send troops on assassination missions in Afghanistan, discrimination against immigrants, and ignoring many of the issues that first nation encounter are just some of the issues that adds to Canada’s deteriorating peacekeeping reputation. This paper will focus…

were Syrian refugees, who were taking a small wooden boat, crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Greece, like millions before them. Except their boat capsized, killing twelve of the twenty-three on board. The little boy, Aylan Kurdi, was one of the twelve who had died. His body floated…

Conflict, nothing had prepared me for seeing the living conditions of Palestinian refugees and impoverished families in the Arab world. During my senior year of college, I joined the Model United Nations team at Northern Arizona University. I was an extremely active member of the club and was honored to win a “Best Delegate” award for my oral presentation at the University of California Los Angeles annual Model United Nations conference. As a senior, I conducted my second round of undergraduate…

He had managed to cross the border over and over again because he feared political persecution in his homeland. He was fifteen years old when he was first arrested. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee Advocacy (UNHCR) has recognized Yusuf as a refugee, but the Turkish government had not. It had filed eight deportation orders against him. This would be the ninth. Yusuf couldn’t be resettled in a third safe country due to…

At the beginning of 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 10.4 million people worldwide were classed as refugees. That is, 10.4 million people that had fled their home country in fear of persecution. In 2011 there were a total of 1,669,725 asylum applications received worldwide, yet only 0.92% of those were made to Australia (Healey 2013). Despite being a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Australia has some of the toughest immigration policies worldwide.…

Plus, Japan to date only accepts 0.2% of refugees. This is among the lowest accepting rates among rich nations. This has been called shameful and cruel of Japan. Japanese journalist Harada Kazuyoshi claims that "Japan has done less than any other large democracy" to reduce the rising refugee problem. One “excuse” that Japan uses for not taking in refugees is that the people won’t settle into Japan well. They will not know the language and they will…

The United States immigration law defines refugees as, “people who are outside of their home country and cannot return due to a well-founded fear of persecution based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinions, or membership in a particular social group” (“Bridging Refugee Youth and Children 's Services”, 795). In 2011, The United States Department of Homeland Security recorded that a total of 56,384 refugee arrived in the United States with majority of the population being…

fleeing because there is not enough international aid to help refugees in this region. Many children are going too long without being formally educated. Almost 5 million Syrians have registered or are awaiting registration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which is leading the regional emergency response. Every year of the conflict there has been an exponential growth in refugees. In 2012, there were 100,000 refugees. By April 2013, there were 800,000. That doubled to 1.6…

Rohingya crisis The Rohingyas are an ethnic minority group in the western region of Myanmar, accounting for two thirds of the population of the Rakhine state. They are a religious and linguistic minority from western Myanmar according to the United Nations The 1 million Rohingyasare different from the Muslim majority linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and religiously. Myanmar was ruled by the military for over 50 years and during that time period it adopted a lot of racial policies…

unemployed persons are eager to travel to get one. Inexperienced graduates seeking for their first position are favorable to emigrate abroad to land a job contract, and start their professional career. Besides, some executives and employees with a high length of service receive promotions, and are transferred overseas, as a reward. However, people take advantage of immigration; a minority of wealthy businessman, also named tax-dodgers, migrate deceitfully to avoid taxation of their homeland…