The Impact of a Refugee Crisis on The Migrants

There is a big effect on the migrants when a refugee crisis happens. They are forced to leave their countries and homes and try their luck at finding a better place to stay. But unfortunately, when a refugee gets displaced from their home country, they go through a lot of hard living conditions. This could be due to the fact that refugees often live in institutionalized apartments when they move to different areas, which puts them under more stress than those living in private accommodation with their friends or family, However, back in 2012, New Zealand came up with a solution for the refugee resettlement to help them with social and economic integration. This was done thoroughly and rapidly, so refugees could stand on their own feet to be able to live independently - like any other New Zealander. This is so they could feel like they belonged to the community and to New Zealand.

As previously mentioned, many Refugees face difficult living conditions when they move around. However, the New Zealand government’s ingenious solution to this problem was to help the new refugees for their refugees first 2-5 years by providing them with an actual home, rather than them living in tight expensive rental houses which do not provide many options. This could also help them by living next to some other refugees who might be of the same ethnic background, which could help them interact and develop a bond with one another. But, the countries that are wealthier seem to accept fewer refugees in their country, than the countries that are having a hard time providing goods and needs for their own people. For example, in 2015, around 107, 100 refugees got permanent residents in a different country to start a better life; and in doing so, it left millions of other refugees vulnerable. This ends up influencing most of the refugees to take the high-risk journey and try to sneak into countries by boats and other forms of human trafficking. For instance, Europe witnessed a massive increase of migrants who snuck in via the Mediterranean Sea in order to find safety and have a better future. Taking high-risk journeys never work out for most of the refugees, as every year, thousands of the people end up dying on their journey or are reported missing. Throughout the article, there are suggestions that most of these people have to go through a lot of tough times until they can find somewhere where they can start a new life, but sadly some of them do not make it.

New migrants have a big effect on the world and its host countries. For example, at the end of 2015, there had been a massive refugee crisis - which was around 21 million refugees; and the results suggest that the number of the refugee crisis had increased by 2 million in that year; it was the second highest number since World War 2. It also shows that in 2015, on average, around 24 individuals worldwide would end up being displaced from their homes every minute. Finding a solution for those refugees has become a big major problem worldwide. In a recent time, quite a few people from different western countries complained about the negative attitudes or host members having been threatened by the refugees. Examples like such produce negative outlooks on refugees as a whole and impact them greatly, in terms western countries accepting them refugees in, as most of their citizens will not feel safe when done so. Furthermore, in recent years, the public attitudes seem to have changed towards refugees, as shown in July 2016; around 22 countries found that nearly over 40 percent of their people wanted to close their border entirely from refugees. One of their main reasons were that a lot of their people believed that terrorists were pretending to be refugees to get access to the countries in order to cause destruction and violence.

Another effect that has been going on, is that the host countries are beginning to believe that due to the refugee crisis, it could have an increasing impact on the host’s economic growth and social structure. For example, since the increase in the refugee crisis, in May 2016, nearly over 1. 2 million people have fled their home countries over the Mediterranean Sea to the European countries in hopes of a better life; however, this could affect most of the European citizens, as they there would be fewer jobs available for their own people, and could also present some new challenges on their health care. Refugees who are sneaking in western countries could have a big effect on European health and wellbeing. For example, the European health community informed that the refugee crisis could be a big major risk because refugees could possibly have infections, which could increase infectious diseases, which could affect their own people. For example, one of the concerns for the European people is that the Syrian refugee crisis could increase tuberculosis infections. This could be due to pollutions in Syria, for out of 100, 000 of the refugees from Syria, around 19 of them would have the Tuberculosis and could also be carrying different diseases. This might be because the refugees came from areas with a really high property, and could be carrying all kind of different diseases. Refugee crisis could have a major effect on refugee kids. For example, the during the refugee crisis, in the 2015 and 2016, nearly over half of the refugees worldwide were children under the age of 18; and around 100, 000 of those refugees had been separated from their parents During the effect of the displacement, it could have a major effect on the children, as they would have gone through a lot of stress. A study shows that refugee children have much higher anxiety and depression, compared to children who are not affected by the refugee crisis. For example, Victoria who is at the age of 16 waits with her brother and sisters - who are around the age 6-12 - to find a place where they can go and start a new life after fleeing from South Sudan. She said that she has no idea where to go or what to do after her mother was killed on December 2015, and her dad has been missing since the war has started.

Moreover, during the Yemen refugee crisis at the end of 2015, it created a complicating situation for the humanitarian. This could be due to the fact that nearly half of those Yemen refugees were children around the age of 19, who needed support and protection. However, Sweden and Germany both came to rescue by opening more of their own doors and allowing in those refugee children. UNHCR stated that the best solution for the western countries would be to help more refugee children, rather than them refugee children putting them self in danger, and trying to sneak into their countries.

Although, when those refugee children move to different countries, they could still end up with a lot of different problems, such as bullying; and also results show that children in western countries who have higher educational achievement, seem to have more stress disorders, in comparison to those with a low achievement; this is due to getting bullied at the school, and not having much support.