Asylum Seekers Research Paper

In the late 1783, Ottoman Empire. In the space of 150 years, 5 to 7 million Muslims arrived from other countries in what is today Turkey. From the 750,000 Bulgarians who left during the Russo – Turkish war (about a quarter of whom died on the way) to the 15,000 Turkish-Cypriots who left the island after it was leased to Great Britain – Turkey experienced a radical transformation as Muslims from Caucasus, Crimea, Crete, Greece, Romania and Yugoslavia arrived. Their descendants remain there, accounting for one in three people in Turkey today. The incident was known as Muhacirs. A refugee can be defined as someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution …show more content…
In Italy many Syrians and Eritreans either refused to be fingerprinted or resorted to burning their fingertip to avoid identification. The problems with the number of refugees and their arrival into a nation have put international refugee law at a crossroads time and again. The fact that the term ‘asylum-seekers’ is being put forth for this argument is creating fundamental terminology. The distinction that states strike here is that one who lawfully pleads entry is an asylum-seeker while one, by whatever means, has somehow found his/her presence in the territory of another state becomes a refugee. According the research of the University of Sydney the UN International Refugee Convention requires host countries to treat asylum seekers with dignity and respect while their claims for asylum are processed. There is increasingly more and more evidence that refugees are being harassed and attacked by the majority. These types of act have been seen across the globe. A great many families are today compelled to leave their homes because of conflict, systematic discrimination, or several types of persecution. International law, particularly human rights law, do not offer the required protection. The problem of refugees persists and refugee protection failing to provide satisfactory solutions, governments does not take any initiative …show more content…
“The way a government treats refugees are very instructive because it shows you have they would treat the rest of us if they thought they would get away with it” by Tony Benn. For Example, hundreds of thousands of people are detained in Europe every year in relation to migration control, with EU laws allowing refugees to be locked up for 18 months without a criminal conviction. Reasons for detention vary from state to state but can include the perceived risk of absconding or “hampering the removal process”, as part of deportation, non-compliance, threat to national security and public order and reasonable grounds to suspect the person will commit a crime. The 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as someone who has fled his or her own country and cannot return because of a well-founded fear of persecution there. An asylum seeker is someone who comes to the UK and applies for protection as a refugee. The UK adheres to UN and EU agreements which mean that asylum applicants cannot be returned to a place where they are likely to face torture or persecution (Malekinm,2011). Peace cannot be kept at times like this. Government when it comes to refugees doesn’t provide any protection or help them in the means of survival or they don’t have enough resources to provide. Canadians generally support the liberal government’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, however many thinks

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