Monday, April 10, 2017
Refugees and rivals: The international dynamics of refugee flows analysis
Often, individuals think about refugees and the struggles that is faced from day to day. As a result, when critiquing host nations on willingness to accept refuges, relationships between refugee and host is largely ignored. This article sought to discover why some nations accept some refugees over others. While many nations are empathetic toward refugees and their plights, analyzing how a host nation can benefit from a group of individuals can not be ignored. Nations too, often operate as businesses in a sense where there needs to be a value added to the nation when an action occurs. The articles argues that refugees are another proxy mechanism by which rival states may seek to undermine one another. If this notion is applied to the current crisis in Syria, there is no clear cut nation or group of people that would benefit from taking in Syrian Refugees economically or geo politically. Since Assad's ruling class is the minority in the nation, neighboring sunni nations may perceive the plight of other Sunnis in Syria as helping Assad instead of trying to get rid of him. Similarly in the west, many nations have economic and cultural fears of taking in refugees.
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You have a very valid point here when you state that it is essential to analyze how a host nation can benefit from a group of individuals such as the refugees. In the case of my thesis paper, I focus on how Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, took in a mass influx of refugees. Although it was a humanitarian cause it can be argued that there were additional reasons she acted this way. For example, Germany right now is facing economic instability and catalyzing to this is their diminishing workforce and aging population. Their labor force shortage is projected to turn deeply negative over the current decade starting from 2010 to 2020. As a result, we can imply that Merkel had this understanding of Germany's need for the refugees and consequently her action was possibly not only humanitarian but also in the sense of utilitarianism.
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