The Impact of Refugees on Host Countries
“THE IMPACT OF RFUGEES ON HOST COUNTARIES”
WITH REFRENCE TO THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN
Contents WHAT IS A REFUGEE? 2 THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN. 2 IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY. 3 SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS 4 POLITICAL IMPLICATION 4 ENVIORMENTAL IMPLICATIONS 5 SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 5 CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE 5 FUNCTIONALIST PERPECTIVE 6 CONCLUSION 6 BIBILOGRAPHY 7
WHAT IS A REFUGEE?
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention the United Nations defines a refugee as “someone who has fled his country of origin due to well founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality or being from a certain ethnic group or even for holding a certain opinion”. Often the difference between a migrant and a refugee is confused but a migrant is the one who has left its country to improve its economic prospects while as a refugee has fled its country in order to protect its life. In order to protect the refugees in the country of asylum the article 33(1) of the convention states that the states are not to send the refugees back to areas where their life and prospects are threatened. But the refugees are not a permanent phenomena as they are required to go back to their own country while the situation there improves.
THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN.
For the past 30 years ,Pakistan’s next door neighbor has had been in constant trouble , In William B Woods article “Long Time Coming: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees” the factors causing flight from ones home country were all present in Afghanistan from anti-colonial wars, wars on independence and self determination movements ,international conflicts ,revolutions, change of government ,ethnic and tribal conflicts ,partition of states and population transfers and expulsion”. Since the state has been in turmoil for a very long time, Pakistan its next door neighbor has had acted as a favorable option for Afghans to fled into .As the border shared between the two countries is
WITH REFRENCE TO THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN
Contents WHAT IS A REFUGEE? 2 THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN. 2 IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY. 3 SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS 4 POLITICAL IMPLICATION 4 ENVIORMENTAL IMPLICATIONS 5 SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 5 CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE 5 FUNCTIONALIST PERPECTIVE 6 CONCLUSION 6 BIBILOGRAPHY 7
WHAT IS A REFUGEE?
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention the United Nations defines a refugee as “someone who has fled his country of origin due to well founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality or being from a certain ethnic group or even for holding a certain opinion”. Often the difference between a migrant and a refugee is confused but a migrant is the one who has left its country to improve its economic prospects while as a refugee has fled its country in order to protect its life. In order to protect the refugees in the country of asylum the article 33(1) of the convention states that the states are not to send the refugees back to areas where their life and prospects are threatened. But the refugees are not a permanent phenomena as they are required to go back to their own country while the situation there improves.
THE AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN.
For the past 30 years ,Pakistan’s next door neighbor has had been in constant trouble , In William B Woods article “Long Time Coming: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees” the factors causing flight from ones home country were all present in Afghanistan from anti-colonial wars, wars on independence and self determination movements ,international conflicts ,revolutions, change of government ,ethnic and tribal conflicts ,partition of states and population transfers and expulsion”. Since the state has been in turmoil for a very long time, Pakistan its next door neighbor has had acted as a favorable option for Afghans to fled into .As the border shared between the two countries is