On February 23rd in the Prime minister's question, Prime Minister David Cameron answered the question like this above (UK Parliament youtube). Most of the Syrian refugees had escaped from their country due to Syria's civil war and Islamic State actions. The civil war began in March 2011, a part of the Arab Spring and it quickly escalated. ‘By July, army defectors had loosely organized the Free Syrian Army and many civilian Syrians took up arms to join the opposition.’ There were conflicts between secular-Islamist fighters and ethnic groups. Five years later, it has ‘killed over 220,000 people half of whom are believed to be civilians. Bombings are destroying crowded cities and horrific human rights violations are widespread’ (‘Crops, “Quick
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‘…the perception of Britain as a country refusing to pull its weight in dealing with a crisis affecting the whole of Europe could antagonize EU negotiating partners have lessened his chances of obtaining key concessions ahead of the referendum’ (Migrant Crisis, BBC). According to the BBC, David Cameron has suggested Europe to let the migrants go back to their homes. However, there was a questionnaire done by the BBC. More than 40% of the citizens agree Britain take more refugees and 31% said to lessen the number of refugees. As a result, citizens welcome rather ignore the Syrian refugees. This happened because the Syrian boy Alan Kurdi. This boy was drowned dead founded on the Turkish beach and the image has influenced most part of the world. Even though people do not agree that the image should affect their ideas to gave in refugees, almost 80% of the people accept Syrian refugees. Therefore, most of the citizens in the UK welcome Syrian …show more content…
Recently, David Cameron announced ‘that UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from camps surrounding Syria’ by 2020 (Gower, Cromarty, and Politowski, “Syrian Refugees and the UK.”). Nowadays, UK is taking care 7.7 millions of the refugees in 2016. However, this does not help the refugees because they are suffering inside and outside. Due to the Syrian civil wars, the refugee rate exponentially grew. According to the Mercy Corps, there were 800,000 refugees but doubled to 1.6 million within four months. Nowadays, 4.3 million Syrians spread through the region and it is recorded as the world’s largest refugee population. ‘The United Nation predicts there could be 4.7 million registered Syrian refugee by the end of 2016’ (‘Crops, “Quick Facts.”). Most of the refugees are looking for shelters to be away from their home country. However, they face obstacles of uncomfortable houses. Due to the population, the places are a lack of sanitization that diseases like cholera and polio can be easily spread. The Syrian refugees first escaped to Lebanon and Jordan, which are two smallest countries, since 2012. However, they started to flee across the border into Turkey. These days, more than four million Syrians registered with the United Nations High Commission of Refugees. As a result, because the refugees want to live there to survive, this aggrandizes the UK population and can cause health care problems
‘…the perception of Britain as a country refusing to pull its weight in dealing with a crisis affecting the whole of Europe could antagonize EU negotiating partners have lessened his chances of obtaining key concessions ahead of the referendum’ (Migrant Crisis, BBC). According to the BBC, David Cameron has suggested Europe to let the migrants go back to their homes. However, there was a questionnaire done by the BBC. More than 40% of the citizens agree Britain take more refugees and 31% said to lessen the number of refugees. As a result, citizens welcome rather ignore the Syrian refugees. This happened because the Syrian boy Alan Kurdi. This boy was drowned dead founded on the Turkish beach and the image has influenced most part of the world. Even though people do not agree that the image should affect their ideas to gave in refugees, almost 80% of the people accept Syrian refugees. Therefore, most of the citizens in the UK welcome Syrian …show more content…
Recently, David Cameron announced ‘that UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from camps surrounding Syria’ by 2020 (Gower, Cromarty, and Politowski, “Syrian Refugees and the UK.”). Nowadays, UK is taking care 7.7 millions of the refugees in 2016. However, this does not help the refugees because they are suffering inside and outside. Due to the Syrian civil wars, the refugee rate exponentially grew. According to the Mercy Corps, there were 800,000 refugees but doubled to 1.6 million within four months. Nowadays, 4.3 million Syrians spread through the region and it is recorded as the world’s largest refugee population. ‘The United Nation predicts there could be 4.7 million registered Syrian refugee by the end of 2016’ (‘Crops, “Quick Facts.”). Most of the refugees are looking for shelters to be away from their home country. However, they face obstacles of uncomfortable houses. Due to the population, the places are a lack of sanitization that diseases like cholera and polio can be easily spread. The Syrian refugees first escaped to Lebanon and Jordan, which are two smallest countries, since 2012. However, they started to flee across the border into Turkey. These days, more than four million Syrians registered with the United Nations High Commission of Refugees. As a result, because the refugees want to live there to survive, this aggrandizes the UK population and can cause health care problems