...Topic: Democratic countries should have an obligation to accept refugees. Do you agree? 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. A democratic country is defined as a form of government in which all the people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. In order to deserve that, a country needs to fulfill some basic requirements. One of the most important is to guarantee the basic human rights, which is international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. For example, Australia and Malaysia had a signature on a bilateral arrangement about transfer and resettlement through UNHCR. Thus, democratic countries have an obligation to accept refugees. A refugee is someone who has been forced from their home country by war, civil conflict, political strife or gross human rights abuses. Most of the time, refugees must flee their home and villages without...
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...Democratic Countries Should Have an Obligation to Accept Refugees. Do You Agree? Topic: Democratic countries should have an obligation to accept refugees. Do you agree? 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. A democratic country is defined as a form of government in which all the people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. In order to deserve that, a country needs to fulfill some basic requirements. One of the most important is to guarantee the basic human rights, which is international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. For example, Australia and Malaysia had a signature on a bilateral arrangement about transfer and resettlement through UNHCR. Thus, democratic countries have an obligation to accept refugees. A refugee is someone who has been forced from their home country by war, civil conflict, political strife or gross human rights...
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... 1. Introduction. Refugees who are defined as people that are residing outside their countries of origin have a different reason for their migration to other countries. Sometimes referred to as asylum seekers, the individuals commonly seek refuge in other countries as they flee from harsh economic social and political conditions present in their countries of origin. Since time immemorial, Australia has had international obligations to protect the refugee’s rights starting from how they arrive to where they arrive. The Australian government is internationally obliged under different treaties that ensure that the human rights of the refugees are respected as well as protected. According to (Phillips & Spinks, 2013, p.241), the number of refugees that arrive to Australia by boat is approximately 4586. Research question, significance and aims of the research (I) Research questions * What accounts for the high number of refugees that arrive to Australia per annum? * What are the necessary actions, to ensure that the management of refugees and asylum seekers that come to Australia is done in the appropriate manner? * Is there a link between the number of refugees that arrive to Australia per year and the quality of service that the refugees receive from the department of immigration and citizenship? (II) Significance The significance of this study is to: * Examine the factors that are responsible for the high number of refugees that come to Australia...
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...western world accept more refugees? For: 1. For protecting democracy or combating convicts (such as ISIS), most of the western countries have military actions in Middle-East, leading up to the current turmoil. Thus, they have the obligation to help the refugees. -After 911, America launched the Iraq War, and overthrew the Hussein regime. They supported the Shia government, which is the majority in Iraq, but also caused the rebellions from Sunni. The invasion of the US caused local activists turn into a radical group which is called ISIS currently. Their sphere of influence include Syria, which is one of the main reasons that caused the current turmoil in this country. - While the western countries, waving the flag of justice, is having battle with ISIS. They are, simultaneously, putting the people in disturbance. For their safety and future, the refugees have no choice but to escape to other regions. 2. The second or third generation of Muslims in the western nations are not accepted by the local society, so they turn to their religion for recognition. -In the western nations , there are many the second or third generation of Muslims who make quite an effort to assimilate to the local society, but due to their religion, in vain. To them, Muslim immigrants could not acquire the local recognition; hence, religion is the way for them to pursue the identification. Thus, a large portion of the ISIS is consisted of these people from western world, and the western countries should take...
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...Australia has a legal obligation towards asylum seekers and refugees. Australia has a legal obligation towards Asylum Seekers and Refugees as it is a signatory to the UN Human Rights and Refugee Conventions. Furthermore, Australia has a moral obligation based on its membership of the world community. “Australia is one of the 146 signatory countries to the United Nations 1951 Convention and or/ 1967 Protocol relating to the status of refugees”. (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, 2009) According to Australian Human Rights Commission an asylum seeker is someone who has fled their country and applies to the government of another country for protection as a refugee, (Australian Human Rights Commision, 2012) whereas a person is a refugee the moment he or she fulfils the criteria of the convention. As part of signatory countries to the United Nations 1951 Convention they are “obliged to act according to their efforts to allow everyone to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case persecutions genuinely arising from non- political crimes or acts of contrary to the purposes and Principles on the United Nations”. (United Nations, 2011) This means that Australia has committed to respect the rights of refugees and to uphold the obligations set out in the treaty. This is in contradiction to the Migration Act 1958, which states, “Australian law requires that asylum seekers who have not been successful in their claims for refugee...
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...Liu Pd.1 The article A Trickle of Syrian Refugees Settles Across the United States by Haeyoun Park October. 21, 2015 informs that the US President Barack Obama announced plans to resettle 10,000 Syrians in the US. This topic is significant because Obama’s decision has been controversial. Some critics say it's far from enough, while some Republicans warned that President Obama is allowing in potential terrorists. However, the United States should take in more Syrian refugees, since the U.S. is founded on the ideal of refuge and refugees contribute to the US society in many ways. The United States should take in more Syrian refugees due to the U.S. has historically been the world leader in recognizing the moral obligation to resettle refugees. “In 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War, when the fall of Saigon led to the U.S. sponsored evacuation of approximately 125,000 Vietnamese refugees.”, this studies show that Americans admitted many of Vietnamese refugees. Moreover, following the Vietnam War and the U.S. experience of resettling Indochinese refugees, Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which incorporated the Convention’s definition into U.S. law and provides the legal basis for today’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). As a result, the United States should take in more refugees as usual. The article A Trickle of Syrian Refugees Settles Across the United States reveals that Syrians is a small share of all refugees admitted in the United States. There are 92...
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...Since the beginning of developed countries, foreign aid has been used as a method of giving help in political, economical, and social regions for the betterment of other nations. Defined as “economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another…” (Dictionary.com), it has long been seen as a form of investing in a territory’s future. Since the end of WWII, the United States of America has been a large contributor of foreign aid, spending billions of dollars each year on countries such as Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Ukraine, and other strategic partners of the US. Supplying them with food, weapons, and other basic war-based necessities has predominantly been the form of foreign support. Most recently, however, the moral and physical dilemma of refugees has become a prominent form of giving foreign assistance--but we don’t allow nearly enough foreigners. As one of the most important documents in the history of the world, the Declaration of Independence famously states that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...” (Declaration of Independence 2, emphasis added). Though this is directed primarily towards the American people, it has long since stood as a symbol of peace, truth,...
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...Morality, Singer draws the conclusion that if we not only has individuals, but as a government [as a whole] would do our parts, the suffering of these individuals would greatly be reduced. In this summary report, I will try to point out his arguments for immediate help for this nation and give a personal response of this article and his arguments. In his article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Singer’s goal is to get us the people of an affluent countries to understand and accept his conclusion that with help from us from anyone, the people of Bengal, India will survive and our moral ethical duties would be satisfied. From the beginning of this article, Singer tries to paint the picture of what is exactly going on in Bengal. He clearly and simply states "people are all dying in East Bengal from lack of food, shelter, and medical care" (Singer, 1972). Singer believes and tries to get us to believe that with help from other individuals and countries the people of Bengal will survive. He points out that in order for the nine million “refugees” to live at the very least a year the estimated amount comes to £464,000,000.00. To the date in which he wrote this article only £65,000,000.00 has been raised in the effort to keep these individuals alive. With this estimate, he brings back his point that if every person and developed nation does their part to help the people of Bengal, these nine million citizens would survive. He feels that without the aid from others, “India will be...
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...Introduction ❖ History ❖ Religion ❖ Rohingya Massacre ❖ Strategy And Activities In 2012 ❖ Rohingya Riots ❖ 2012 Unhcr Country Operations Profile - Bangladesh ❖ Why Rohingyas Being Refused Bangladesh Entry? ❖ Illegal Migrants ❖ Banned In Bangladesh ❖ Waiting For Democracy ❖ Under The 'Nasaka' ❖ Case Refferences Of Citizenship Introduction The Rohingya are a Muslim people who live in the Arakan region. The origin of the term "Rohingya" is disputed. Some Rohingya historians like Khalilur Rahman contended that the term Rohingya is derived from Arabic word 'Raham' meaning sympathy. They trace the term back to the ship wreck in 8th century AD. According to them, after the Arab ship wrecked near Ramree Island, Arab traders were ordered to be executed by Arakanese king. Then, they shouted in their language, 'Raham'. Hence, these people were called 'Raham'. Gradually it changed from Raham to Rhohang and finally to Rohingyas. However, the claim was refuted by Jahiruddin Ahmed and Nazir Ahmed, former president and Secretary of Arakan Muslim Conference respectively. They argued that ship wrecked Muslims are currently called 'Thambu Kya' Muslims and currently residing along the Arakan sea shore. Should the term Rohingya derive from these Muslims, "Thambu Kyas" would have been the first group to be known as Ruhaingyas. According to them, Rohingyas were descendants of inhabitants of Ruha in Afghanistan. Another historian...
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...migrants can gain protection and/or rights. First is the protection that exists for refugees under the terms of the 1951 Geneva Convention. Under the Convention, a refugee is defined as someone who, ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion is outside the country of his nationality …’. Being a refugee means being unable to seek protection in your country of nationality because of a fear of persecution and so refugee status brings with it the protection of the international community. One of the ways in which potential refugees access protection is by seeking asylum, at which point the receiving state considers the individual’s case to be a refugee. There also exists an extensive human rights framework that should, in principle, protect people regardless of their immigration status and their motive or motives for migration. Universality underlies these treaty regimes and included in this are children’s rights and women’s rights as well as political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights, all enforceable through actions against the state. Finally, there are nation state rights which are stratified by an individual’s citizenship and immigration status within the country of residence (Morris, 2002). Under the stratified system of rights, naturalized citizens and refugees have extensive rights and are at one end of the continuum. At the other end of the...
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...Israel’s Reconciliation With Its Arab Citizens Israel achieved basic reconciliation with its Arab citizens, but it was a challenge. Likewise, the establishment of Israel was an extensive and difficult process. The idea of a Jewish state in the Middle East outraged the Arab community, especially the Palestinians that currently lived on the land of the proposed Jewish state. On November 2, 1917, Arabs started to become unnerved that a Jewish state might be created in the Middle East. British Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour, issued a statement of British government policy, which has since become known as the Balfour Declaration. It stated: "His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” This is a major milestone for the Jews worldwide. Then in 1920, the borders of the proposed Jewish state were created, which was called, the British Mandate. The Council of the League of Nations appointed Britain as the Mandatory entrusted with the administration of the Land of Israel. The area designated for the Jewish homeland was displeasing for the Arabs. As a result, the Arabs who lived on the land, which was originally called Palestine, vocally and physically expressed their disapproval through riots and other means. The backlash from the Arabs forced the British government to create a commission to analyze how the British Mandate’s government was performing and how to create solutions for the causes of the riots...
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...refusal to accept refugees fleeing genocide in the Middle East and North Africa. In the wake of the Trump Administration’s recent travel ban on persons entering the U.S from countries that primarily practice Islam, there have been a myriad of comparisons to when Jewish refugees were turned away from America’s doorstep and forced to a certain death during World War II. There is truth in this equivalence, but there is a dichotomy between the motives behind these genocides. The killing of civilians in the Middle East is to suppress political dissent and achieve religious monoliths, whereas the Nazi death camps had one motive; racial “purity.” The impact of the Nazi...
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...My name is Najeeba Wazefadost, and 12 years ago I risked my life on a dangerous journey. I escaped my country Afghanistan and came to Australia by boat. I know that there are no words to comfort those who have lost their loved ones in the recent boat tragedies. But also devastating is the fact that over the past decade, we have only heard politicians endlessly scare-mongering about the number of boat arrivals and how we can decrease these numbers, or deter asylum seekers altogether. Over time, the real human faces of the vulnerable have been turned into statistics about the number of boat arrivals. We have forgotten the devastating circumstances from which asylum seekers come. Afghanistan has been in a state of war for many decades, a war that has left little evidence of justice, humanity and peace for its people. Even now, villages are frequently attacked and there is continuous persecution of minorities. The Afghan Hazaras are not safe in Afghanistan, and are not even safe in neighbouring countries like Pakistan. These are people whose only choice is to seek refuge and security in any way possible. For my family and me, we could not wait for someone to come and rescue us because we could have been dead by then. Coming by boat was the only choice we had. Even though we knew we were at risk of drowning in the daunting waters of the Pacific, we preferred taking that risk over brutal killing at the hands of the Taliban. It hurts me to hear politicians claim that the best way to...
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...Valji, Lee Anne de la Hunt and Helen Moffett Source: Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, No. 55, Women. The Invisible Refugees (2003), pp. 61-72 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Agenda Feminist Media Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4066300 . Accessed: 21/10/2014 10:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . Taylor & Francis, Ltd. and Agenda Feminist Media are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 158.143.122.250 on Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:19:36 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Where in are the women? and Gender practices discrimination refugee policies NAHLAVALJI, ANNE DELA HUNT and LEE HELENMOFFETT write thereaneed that is toreframe underpinning rights legislation toafford refugees theories refugee and inorder women moreprotection There possibly one morevulnerable the refugee is no thon woman. Every meansof...
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...displaced people (the majority of whom are women and children). Australia currently accepts around 13,750 refugees each year as part of total planned annual immigration of around 182,000 people. This paper identifies social and political problems relating to asylum seekers and refugees. It examines the biblical teaching on a responsible Christian approach to asylum seekers and refugees, and discusses some of the ways in which Australian Baptists have responded to the challenges of immigration and asylum seekers. It concludes with a new policy proposal for the consideration of Australian Baptist Ministries, the various State and Territory Baptist Unions, and local churches. There is also a guide to further information. The situation facing Australia today Immigration policy is one of the two most bitterly contested issues in Australian politics, and has been for more than ten years. People who seek asylum by boat, and various policy instruments designed to deter both asylum seekers and people smugglers, have been at the heart of an increasingly contentious public and political discussion in Australia for more than a decade. The debate has polarised large sections of the Australian community and prevented many politicians from engaging in a constructive policy dialogue. With little to differentiate their product, especially on economic and employment issues, the two major political parties have resorted to defining their voter appeal on the basis of pragmatic and regressive...
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