The United States seems to be torn apart between its commitment to human rights and the desire to influence the human rights as a component of the Cold War foreign policy strategy. The United States seems to adopt a different definition of refuges that contradicts the definition as presented on the other countries. The debate surrounding the definition of refugees compared the definition by United States and other countries. The debate surrounds the fact that the United States does not want to incorporate unknown groups in defining refugees. The country fears that the inclusion may affect the financial commitments. The Great Britain and France favored the broad definition of refugees. On the other hand, the United States favors enumeration (Ostrand …show more content…
The world should know the causes of refugees’ immigration. Humans should be aware that refugees are victims of crisis displacement. The current figures indicate that the current movement is more than five times the displacement that occurred after the World War II. Statistics reveal that there are more than 50m persons are displaced. 16m of these displaced persons are refugees. An example is in Syria where the instability has displaced more than 9m civilians are, 3m of them are refugees (Goldenziel