Refugees Have a Negative Effect on the Economy of the Country
Refugees have a negative effect on the economy of the country.
Nowadays one of the major problems in the world is the growing number of refugees and asylum seekers. Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their home country for fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, politics, civil war or due to environmental disasters. Almost since time began, the human race has had problems when the situation in their area has changed for the worse, and they have had to make tough decisions about where they should go. This essay will look at few important reasons that refugees can negatively impact on the economy of the country.
The world is observing the World Refugee Day today. The definition of the word refugee is sometimes expanded to include that people fleeing war or other armed conflict. Generally, it is because of political conflicts, war, violence, persecution, torture – that drives people to leave their homes. We see that from year to year the number of refugees increases. And it is the fact that from 2010 to 2012 in USA the number of refugees increases from 70.000 to 15 millions. And the USA is the largest and most generous country of opportunity for refugees.
The highest refugee concentrations are in some of the poorest countries in the world. A large number of such movements are into Least Developed Countries. Vecente Guterres, who is Indian economist, reminds that 80 per cent of world’s refugees live in developing countries. The presence of refugees compounds the already prevailing economic, environmental, social and, sometimes, political difficulties in these countries. Often such countries are confronted by a combination of all four of these factors. Nearly always their impact is distinguished. Moreover, in many refugee situations problems are deteriorating when refugees are a substantial proportion of the local, if not national population. For
Nowadays one of the major problems in the world is the growing number of refugees and asylum seekers. Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their home country for fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, politics, civil war or due to environmental disasters. Almost since time began, the human race has had problems when the situation in their area has changed for the worse, and they have had to make tough decisions about where they should go. This essay will look at few important reasons that refugees can negatively impact on the economy of the country.
The world is observing the World Refugee Day today. The definition of the word refugee is sometimes expanded to include that people fleeing war or other armed conflict. Generally, it is because of political conflicts, war, violence, persecution, torture – that drives people to leave their homes. We see that from year to year the number of refugees increases. And it is the fact that from 2010 to 2012 in USA the number of refugees increases from 70.000 to 15 millions. And the USA is the largest and most generous country of opportunity for refugees.
The highest refugee concentrations are in some of the poorest countries in the world. A large number of such movements are into Least Developed Countries. Vecente Guterres, who is Indian economist, reminds that 80 per cent of world’s refugees live in developing countries. The presence of refugees compounds the already prevailing economic, environmental, social and, sometimes, political difficulties in these countries. Often such countries are confronted by a combination of all four of these factors. Nearly always their impact is distinguished. Moreover, in many refugee situations problems are deteriorating when refugees are a substantial proportion of the local, if not national population. For