1. REFUGEES

2. Who is a refugee? U.N. definition (1951 Convention):
A refugee is a person 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”
POLITICAL REFUGEE

3. Other definitions: Economic refugee…
Someone who is seeking a higher material standard of living
Environmental refugee…
Someone fleeing the destruction of a natural disaster

4. INCREASING NUMBERS Wars Creation of new countries
Changes in governments

8. Characteristics of a refugee
Takes only what they can carry
Initial journey is on foot or by other primitive form of transportation
Lacks documentation
Has no clear destination
Hopes to return home someday
Is a part of an unstratified group

9. Why be a refugee?
Political: -Fear for life, persecution, forced/evicted Social: -Religious persecution, ethnic/racial persecution, rights denied due to gender or sexuality Environmental: -Natural disaster, pollution, epidemic/disease, famine

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12. Syrians Migration Due to Civil War going on in Syria
Neighboring countries like Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon have taken on refugees
Syrian refugees are now migrating to Europe
Next couple slides will show the largest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, it is now Jordan’s 5th largest city.

21. Click on the following link and see the article on what the United States plans to do with Syrian refugees:

22. IMPACTS OF REFUGEES ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL Deforestation
Land degredation
Water pollution
Disease
Crime/social strife
Famine

24. Immediate concern…housing

25. Housing Solutions?

28. IKEA Housing

29. SOLUTIONS?
United Nations High Commission on Refugees
Voluntary repatriation (cooperation by country for the return of the refugees to their home country)
Local resettlement
Resettlement elsewhere

30. Link
Click on the link below and play the Syrian Refugee simulation. Will you make the right choices to survive?