In the globalized world of today, the way the systems of the planet operate could be described as ebbs and flows, because there is no end point and no isolated system. Whether it is the global economy or pattern of weather, there is always a widespread exchange of interactions and ripple effects. One such example is migration, which is simply a flow of what earth has an abundance of: humans. That is the subject of this investigation, specifically migration in the Mediterranean region, an area of the world so flooded with immigrants and refugees that it is in crisis.
The Mediterranean Sea has several places where Africa and Europe come very close to meeting. There is the Strait of Gibraltar, Istanbul, and the distance from Tunisia to
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The passengers who question if the boat is seaworthy are forced onto the boat at gunpoint by the smugglers, who pack the boat above capacity with people. As of 2015, the regional border’s deadliest year so far, over 1,800 have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea. For example, in April of that year, 700 were on a boat headed for Lampedusa and only 28 have been rescued from the wreck. The situation is clearly dire for African refugees if they are willing to tolerate such hardship. What was it that caused the Africans to emigrate in such large numbers, and what are possible solutions to help them in this crisis?
To begin to understand this trend of immigration flow, examine the areas where the migrants came from. One would think Tunisia and Egypt would have a fair share of migrants trying to escape from their coast as much as Libya does, but that is not so because in the past five years both countries have tightened border security significantly. Why the increase in restriction? Because in 2011, Libya ignited into a civil war between the dictator Muammar Gaddafi and rebels attempting to overthrow him. It was a violent year, but with European support via the NATO military campaign the dictator was toppled and the rebels were left to take control. It left a power vacuum, and the provisional government that the rebels should have
The article Desperation at Sea by Rebecca Zissou tells us about people trying to escape war, poverty and natural disaster. First, on April 17, 2015 Ali 70 other migrants were migrating to Europe and start anew life but thousands of of people died trying to cross to Europe. Secondly, people were snuggled into plastic boats and abandon them to protect them selfs. Then, some passengers get to stay in Europe permanently. After that they need to find a job and often fight for it. Finally, this book was about escaping from their homeland.
Courage is the ability to persevere with determination and bravery even when fear is present. Atticus Finch, a protagonist in To Kill Mockingbird, is a character that the most shows courage throughout the book. He exhibits courage by doing and saying what others don’t what to. He does what’s right despite others going against it or saying it’s wrong. In his town, he’s surrounded by wrong and bad morals, but still sticks to his own morals and decisions.
Desperate refugees fleeing Libya, Yemen and many other countries have been arriving in Italy and other European Nations after their treacherous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea and the
While it is common to hear about ‘migrants and refugees’, it is important to recognise that the two terms refer to very different groups of people. While both groups have effectively moved from one country to another, the circumstances leading up to that move are markedly different for each group.
For the last year, people from the various regions of the globe have been fleeing their home countries and migrating toward several nations across Europe. What pushes them away and what draws them to their final destinations? Ascertaining a single motivation of immigration remains too complex to determine because a variety of factors and goals have lead to this grand movement. Several issues arise from increased numbers of immigrants who may or may not be finding what they seek.
From the micro-level to the macro-level globalization has transformed the world into a smaller place with constant interactions occurring at every moment between nations, institutions, groups, and individuals. And with this prevalent interconnectivity, migration between the Global North and the Global South has been a controversial consequence of this global integration (Hinojosa, 2015). For this reason one cannot ignore the importance and impact of migrant populations in the country they settle in, and in the countries of origin.
Thirteen million refugees and about 100 million immigrants have moved across borders within the last several decades (Potocky-Tripodi 2002). Global changes that have currently occured account for an unprecedented movement of individuals across the world in search of better opportunities and conditions.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, a seventeenth century Baptist preacher, commented that, "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." An individual either faces their actions or runs from them, and Gothic Romance authors often write about the evil that emerges in people when they conceal their sins. Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates this idea through the actions of his three main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. In spite of the nearly equal severity of their sins, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Hester react to their dilemmas in varying
The European migrant crisis began in 2015 when there was an influx of refugees coming into the European Union through southern European countries and by way of the Mediterranean Sea. An extremely large portion of these refugees came from Syria and Iraq. One of the leading causes of the mass migration was war and unrest and the consequent rise of insurgency groups such as ISIS within these people’s home countries. As their homes and cities have become unfit to live in any longer, people have been driven to seek asylum in European countries. Greece and other southern European countries like
This is an interesting comparing the Crisis in the Middle East with the massive migration
At the onset of the Christian faith, its followers faced a difficult period in which they had to deal with many internal and external forces of confusion about their new faith. With Christianity being a rather close subdivision of Judaism, the followers of Christianity are faced with the task of supporting their beliefs and practices deeming why they are justifiable. In this apologetic period, these Jewish Christians embark on the task of defending their church and the religion itself in order to establish its credibility and existence.
Over 200,000 lives are becoming their responsibility, because those people are vulnerable and are seeking asylum from dangerous threats in their home countries. It seems the groups like ISIS will continue virtually unhindered in Africa given the way politics have slowed down the European Union. They have yet to reach an accord on a long-term solution, and unfortunately for the time being the Triton program may not be a big enough safety net for desperate migrants who flee volatile wars in Libya and Syria, neither of which show signs of letting up anytime soon. Based on the data collected, there is no sign of the migration trend slowing down either. In fact, the flow of migration will never fully stop because, in a way, it defines the human struggle. The end goal is something better than what one currently has, which is the essence of the will to survive and prosper at the heart of humanity. Migration is so crucial to humanity that as a species, humans have avoided evolving physically because migration causes the environment to change rather than humans. As an effect of this aspect of human nature, the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis will not be the last of migration waves. As long as there is any sort of disparity between Europe and Africa, the migration will continue. Even today there are new masses of people
Migration variations include south to south migrants, south to north migrants, massive internal and transnational migration, slum dwellers, illegal settlements, these grounds, territorial fragmentation, internal displacement, communities and perilous locations.
Nowadays migration is getting to be one of the dominant characteristics of the modern world since at the present moment that movement of people and migration of citizens from one country to another become a norm. Not surprisingly that such unparallel and extremely high level of migration results in substantial demographic, ethnical and socio-cultural changes in many countries of the world.
The important underlining problem is the fact that these migrants are arriving and staying in Italy and Greece. Both Italy and Greece are going through an economic crisis that cannot sustain the migrants that are landing within their borders; they are asking the European Union to give them relief, by imposing quotas to redistribute the migrants to other European nations that are a part of the migration policy. The migrant crisis also brings insecurity to nations such as Italy and Greece because of they are not prepared to deal with the amount of people entering in their borders. Not all European countries