Well-Being of Refugee Population Assignment
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Well-Being of Refugee Population Assignment
Added on 2020-03-16
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Running Head: THE WELL-BEING OF REFUGEE POPULATION Accommodating and Ensuring the Well-Being of Refugee PopulationStudent’s NameInstitutionDate
THE WELL-BEING OF REFUGEE POPULATION 2Everyone has the mandate to feel free and never be intimidated under whichever circumstances in the world. Some people are encountered by conflicts and forced to flee away from their home countries to seek refuge to other nations (Makarova & Birman, 2016). They end up being accumulated to those countries to the point of being recognized and appreciated just like other inhabitants. These characters are known as refugees, and they can best be defined as those people who are outside their country of nationality, and they are afraid of being persecuted on various grounds such as religion, racial factors, politics, being a member of a certain social class among others (Every, 2017)Australia is one of the countries where many foreigners seek their refuge as it is found to be hospitable to refugees and doesn’t discriminate them much with their citizens. This essay will, therefore, seek to explain the sustainability issues associated with accommodating and ensuring the well-being of refugee populations in Australia, from an environmental, social, and economic point of view as well as discussing responses that could help achieve sustainability. Refugees are always unwilling to go back to their country of origin unless they are assured of security by the government. UNHCR plays a vital role in identifying the refugees whoenter Australia through the humanitarian programs and are taken to the government-sponsored humanitarian program where they are taken great care of and treated as actual citizens of the nation, being offered with various support facilities such as accommodation, food, healthcare, security and even being trained the Australian language such to the point that they cannot be differentiated with other citizens. (Baldassar, 2017 p 105-123). There are still other refugees whoenter Australia because of various family ties, that is, they have family members living in the country, and upon crossing the border, they opt not to go back to where they originate from due to one reason or another. Another group of people taken as refugees by the Australian
THE WELL-BEING OF REFUGEE POPULATION 3government is those people who just enter the country with a valid visa card. These people are first taken to the refugee camps awaiting verification. This kind of refugees is known as claimants. Sometimes the refugees may have different experiences in the country depending on the country of origin, cultural practices and their health status, a factor that could lead them to feel offended in case they are put together with people of different status (Vaughan et al., 2016). Some may be victims of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera hence they are isolated from other refugees. Most of the people found to be seeking refuge in Australia are the people from Syria and Iraq simply because their home countries are always affected by ethnic wars, others for the greed of power. A time comes when the state cannot accommodate all the refugees due to their large numbers hence they first accumulate those at high risk. These refugeesfeel at home, and they sometimes engage themselves in country building activities hence increasing the overall GDP and GNP of the country (Shishehgar et al., 2017).Various sustainability issues are accompanied by the accommodation of these refugees inthe country which will be discussed in an environmental, social and economic point of view. Environmentally, the accumulation of people in the same region encourages overpopulation resulting to overutilization of the available resources such as land, food, and water (Nelson, J., 2015). Environmental degradation is mostly experienced in such places as the population smoothens the topmost soil resulting to erosion. Water catchment areas are also destroyed as a result of erosion too, leaving the land bare for any agricultural activity. Whenever the refugees exceed the expected numbers, there is always the probability of clearing the land to construct provisional camps for them. This leads to deforestation resulting to global warming which has adverse effects on both human and animal life through scorching of
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