A refugee is a person who leaves his or her country due to a well-founded fear of persecution because of his or her race, religion, nationality, political views, or membership in a particular social group. Once a host country accepts an asylum seeker to become a refugee, the host county has a moral obligation to ease the transition from a refugee to a fully participating citizen. This may include subsidized housing, job training, and other financial and social services. This is good for the incoming refugee and good for the economy of the host country. Refugees deserve to be supported financially.
Providing financial support will provide and practical immediate relief such of daily needs such as groceries, housing and clothing. Tomaki Ueda wrote, “Immigrants can work and the tax burden on the state would be low” [Fifield 4]. Asylum seekers need to wait several weeks before they receive their papers; they have no support until the results are finalized. This leaves the asylum seekers without any access to any financial funding.
Families utilize all they have to send their children long distances, unprotected and vulnerable, in hopes of finding financial stability and safety.
“These children under 18 are making the dangerous thousand-mile trek across half of Europe without a parent” [King 1]. A 16-year-old Syrian boy, Mazen …show more content…
Hassoun quoted, “‘We didn’t have enough money to bring the whole family, and so it was decided that I would make the journey’” [King 2]. People try to escape the dangers in their own country. “Conditions in Syria have been growing increasingly worse” [Dilanian 2].
Families send their children across the Europe because it gives the family a chance at securing a home.
Once the children cross international boarders, they become asylum seekers. An asylum seeker is a person who has moved across international borders in search of protection and has filed a claim for asylum with the host country’s government. If the claim is accepted, the person becomes a refugee. “…it takes several weeks or months before they know whether they will be allowed to stay in Germany” [King 3]. An asylum is shelter or protection from danger granted by a country to someone forced to leave his or her home
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Families expect children to secure a job and send home money. “Aid workers say that youngsters who travel without their parents often feel intense pressure under the weight of a families hopes” [King 3]. Refugee children have to work if they want to survive. Leaving a child alone to work can be very life threatening. Children are left unprotected. The family that sends their children to make the journey is willing to risk a life in order to find safety.
If refugees are not financially reinforced, many live will be lost. Providing financial support would instantly relive refugees from daily needs.
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The journey to anew location itself is extremely life threating. Families and children are willing to take the risk of death to find financial security and safety. Refugees deserve to be supported financially. `