Migration:
A refugee is 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, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." A country where a large number of refugees originate from is Afghanistan. According to the UNHCR website around 2.6 million people from Afghanistan are, as of mid-2013, refugees. In 2011 the crude death rate dropped from 15.9, in 2010, to 8.63, this is probably due to a reduction in both military and civilian casualties. Also with an influx of people, the same number of deaths would still equal a smaller percentage, and in the last few years Afghanistan has seen an increase in the number of refugees returning, about 5.7 million people since 2002. According to a news article the average Afghan woman gives birth to 6-7 children, and the birth rate is almost at 40. I believe the influx of Afghan’s back into their home country increases the number of women, of child bearing age, which increases the countries birth rates.
Internally displaced people are defined as people who have not crossed international boarders to find sanctuary, but instead remain inside their home countries. Even though these people may have fled for the same reasons that refugees flee, they remain under the protection of their government. Another difference between refugees and internally displaced people is that civilians who are made homeless by natural disasters are considered internally displaced people. An example of a country with internally displaced people is Iraq, as of mid-2013 there were almost one million internally displaced people within the country. Iraq is receiving large numbers of Syrian refugees; it is also seeing the return of many Iraqi refugees, particularly from Syria. Often these returnees cannot go back to their places of origin, leading to new secondary displacement inside Iraq. Between 2005 and 2010 the CDR was 6.3 and the CBR was 36.6. Both of these rates were lower than the rates seen between 2000 and 2005. Infant mortality rates have also been lowered. The high death rate could be due to women’s inability to get access to healthcare while pregnant or for delivery, many women die during child birth.
While doing research I noticed that in almost all cases, where a country has a large number of people seeking refuge in other countries, there is also a large number of internally displaced people. Also there seems to be a correlation between an influx in the number of refugees that are seeking asylum in a country and number of internally displaced people within that country. I believe this correlation exists because the influx of refugees move into already occupied areas and people have to move to make room for these people.
A refugee is 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, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country." A country where a large number of refugees originate from is Afghanistan. According to the UNHCR website around 2.6 million people from Afghanistan are, as of mid-2013, refugees. In 2011 the crude death rate dropped from 15.9, in 2010, to 8.63, this is probably due to a reduction in both military and civilian casualties. Also with an influx of people, the same number of deaths would still equal a smaller percentage, and in the last few years Afghanistan has seen an increase in the number of refugees returning, about 5.7 million people since 2002. According to a news article the average Afghan woman gives birth to 6-7 children, and the birth rate is almost at 40. I believe the influx of Afghan’s back into their home country increases the number of women, of child bearing age, which increases the countries birth rates.
Internally displaced people are defined as people who have not crossed international boarders to find sanctuary, but instead remain inside their home countries. Even though these people may have fled for the same reasons that refugees flee, they remain under the protection of their government. Another difference between refugees and internally displaced people is that civilians who are made homeless by natural disasters are considered internally displaced people. An example of a country with internally displaced people is Iraq, as of mid-2013 there were almost one million internally displaced people within the country. Iraq is receiving large numbers of Syrian refugees; it is also seeing the return of many Iraqi refugees, particularly from Syria. Often these returnees cannot go back to their places of origin, leading to new secondary displacement inside Iraq. Between 2005 and 2010 the CDR was 6.3 and the CBR was 36.6. Both of these rates were lower than the rates seen between 2000 and 2005. Infant mortality rates have also been lowered. The high death rate could be due to women’s inability to get access to healthcare while pregnant or for delivery, many women die during child birth.
While doing research I noticed that in almost all cases, where a country has a large number of people seeking refuge in other countries, there is also a large number of internally displaced people. Also there seems to be a correlation between an influx in the number of refugees that are seeking asylum in a country and number of internally displaced people within that country. I believe this correlation exists because the influx of refugees move into already occupied areas and people have to move to make room for these people.
Iraq
Afghanistan
Reflection:
I had not really ever thought about refugees, and I had never even heard of internally displaced people before this class. My first year in college I met a refugee from Iraq, and that was the first time I had ever really thought about refugees. I didn't realize that people would move so far away from their home countries, I thought refugees, for the most part, migrated into neighboring countries; it had never crossed my mind that their neighboring countries might turn them away. After working on this project I realized that millions more people than I realized are currently refugees and it isn’t just people from countries in the Middle East. This section also taught me that people can be displaced, not only by social and civil unrest, but by natural disasters. This whole course has taught me how socially unaware I have been.
I had not really ever thought about refugees, and I had never even heard of internally displaced people before this class. My first year in college I met a refugee from Iraq, and that was the first time I had ever really thought about refugees. I didn't realize that people would move so far away from their home countries, I thought refugees, for the most part, migrated into neighboring countries; it had never crossed my mind that their neighboring countries might turn them away. After working on this project I realized that millions more people than I realized are currently refugees and it isn’t just people from countries in the Middle East. This section also taught me that people can be displaced, not only by social and civil unrest, but by natural disasters. This whole course has taught me how socially unaware I have been.