Discourse On Refugees

Through out the world and over the centuries, societies have welcomed frightened, weary strangers, the victims of persecution and violence. This humanitarian tradition of offering sanctuary is often now played on the television screens across the globe as war and large-scale persecution produce millions of refugees and internally displaced persons. At the start of 21st century, protecting refugees means maintaining solidarity with the worlds most threatened, while finding answers tot eh challenges confronting the international system that was created to do just that.

My public argument was directed to the Wildcats Magazine. The audience of public argument needed to be informed of the issue prior to be convinced to my opinion. Similarly, most of my presentation’s audiences were not aware of the European refugees crisis. The public argument has to provide a sufficient background in order to put the audience in the picture. However, my presentation has to include a detailed explanation about the reason of having the Middle Eastern refugees’ crisis. In addition, the rhetorical strategies used in both of my public argument and presentation were mostly the same. The rhetorical strategies are sympathy, logical future facts, and logical statistics.

One of the most contentious discourses to ever exist in the Australian news media is that which concerns asylum seekers. Discourse is defined as an organisation of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005), and racism is a system of oppression targeting members of ethnic groups who share bodily phenotypes such as skin pigmentation (Erikson 2010, Luke and Carrington 2000, Scholte 2000). This essay will firstly argue that Australia’s dominant discourse portrays asylum seekers in a racist manner. Then, it will determine this discourse to be largely constructed by the news media: the mass communication channels (such as newspapers, television, and the Internet) that report recent events

In this paper I will discuss about the Syrian refugees Crisis, the characteristics of the of Syrian refuges crisis, how similar or different it the Syrian refugee crisis is from other refugee crisis, how Syrian refugee crisis affects individuals, families, and communities, what relevant research exists on the Syrian refugee crisis, and what key strategies have been known to be useful in this crisis, how one promote resilience in this crisis and how the social workers personal value affect him/her in addressing this crisis.

In recent decades, many people have sought refugee status and this has caused a lot of discussion on the issue. Many argue that refugees should not be given priority in gaining entry to democratic countries, while others believe they should. The purpose of this essay is to point out that democratic countries should have an obligation to accept refugees. To support this position, the following areas will be examined: firstly, the reason why those countries are called democratic countries. Secondly, refugees are under the difficult situation. Thirdly, countries can take advantage of accepting refugees.

The United Nations approach on the treatment of refugees is as follows. the Convention relating to the status of Refugees 1967 Protocol defines who a refugee is and explains what Rights countries should afford to refugees. A refugee is a person who is outside of their own country and is unable or unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of their; race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political

A refugee is a person who was forced to leave their country. Whether it be from warfare or natural disaster, their homes are no longer safe to live in, so they need to relocate elsewhere. Once someone sets foot on the journey of becoming a refugee, they become vulnerable and dependent with no sense of what the future will bring. In an attempt to accommodate them, first world countries with the resources necessary to assist these refugees, are struggling to determine whether or not they should step-in and help. Some argue that taking them in could come with excessive consequences, while others believe they could be assets. Although there may be a few consequences, they are outweighed by the benefits and undeniable severity of the situation.

The most commonly accepted definition of a ‘refugee’ is set out in the United Nations 1951

Over 300,000 refugees are waiting at the borders of our country waiting to be accepted into our country. My question is why. Why would our great country want to weaken ourselves by letting illnesses and terrorism into our country, especially when they did not help us in the past? The United States should not accept refugees because of many reasons including terrorism, stealing jobs from U.S citizens and bringing sickness and unknown illnesses into our country. Hundreds and hundreds of terrorist attacks have occurred in our country the only blameable menace are us letting in refugees in. Thousands of refugees are working immediately, and illnesses are spreading to Americans in our country as soon as these refugees enter our country. Knowing all of these issues is it really worth letting them in?

The issue of refugees has a long history from a lot of countries around the world starting back in 1940s. Some people are either fleeing from their country that is at war or natural disaster or is a countries that are letting refugees into their own country and don't know when it is the time to say no to any more refugees that are trying to come into their countries. Imagine if all of the countries just gave up on helping the refugees and thousand by thousand they all start to die, just because we would not let them come to a safe place to life. How would you feel if all that was on the news was them saying thousand by thousand refugees are dies because countries are not letting them in. So I think that the U.S should let refugees into the U.S because they have been letting them in for over 200 years and why should they stop now, the U.S could be saving the lives of the people in the countries that are in need, and the U.S is a big super power in the world and other countries could benefit off of them and then go out and help other countries.

A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to

The situation present migrant situation in Europe is concerning to say the least, thousands, if not to say millions of immigrants cross European frontiers illegally every day, causing not only legal problems for themselves, but also injuries and death.

The first day of my internship at the Refugee Legal Service in Dublin, Ireland I learned the difference between watching news clips on refugees, and what it meant to actually go through the whole process. The asylum process is a painstaking, time consuming, and emotional ordeal. During my time there, I ended up meeting with dozens of refugees, but there was one event that I can still remember clearly. I was invited to help work on a case involving a woman and her son fleeing from South Africa due to facial scarring on the first-born child. After a meeting with several members of our legal team, I reached out to the caseworker and asked if there was anything extra I could do to help their case. She asked that I try to find more evidence to support the claim that facial scarring was still going on in the village the family was from. After spending days researching the area the village was in, I was able to find other accounts of facial scarring. Because of my extra efforts that helped her case, I was invited to attend the hearing at the High Court.

The European refugee crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum. Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. According to the data that was shown in Business Standard and also confirmed by BBC News, the top ten nations which account for 90% of the sea arrivals in 2015 were: Syria (49%), Afghanistan (21%), Iraq (8%), Eritrea (4%), Pakistan, Nigeria and Somalia (2 %), Sudan, Gambia and Mali (1%). Also the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees confirms that the top three nationalities of refugees are Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi. Of the refugees and migrants arriving in Europe by sea in 2015, 58% were men, 17% women and 25% children. (Wright, 2015). According to Eurostat, EU member states received over 1.2 million first time asylum applications in 2015, 4 countries (Germany, Hungary, Sweden, and Austria) received around two-thirds, while Latvia received a very small part of them.

Refugees and minority groups, especially in the United States, are increasingly ostracized and ridiculed through ignorance. Besides the obvious direct impact of assisting the refugees and minority groups in need, the education and experiences I receive can be used in my home country to change the current mindset. To put it bluntly, Donald Trump is the symbol of the United States’ ethos. I want to change that but lack the empathy of truly understanding what these marginalized communities go through because of my privilege. If I could actively and personally experience their lives, I can become empathetic and influence my fellow Americans to become open-minded and receptive of these communities.