So back in September I created this:
I was asked a question about the Syrian refugee crisis and in a classic academic fashion I continued reading the literature until about 1am.
Right now Syria looks like Europe did after WW2..
Britain is currently fearful of the prospect of accepting 20,000 refugees over a five year period. That's 4,000 refugees a year.
To give a sense of perspective:
There are 9.5 million Syrians that are currently displaced.*
6.5 million displaced Syrians are still living within Syria.
3 million (out of the 9.5m) have fled Syria and are living within neighbouring countries.
There are over 4,000,000 registered Syrian refugees.
In 2014 there were 2,000,000 registered refugees from Syria.
In 2013 there were just under 500,000 registered refugees.
On the 17th of Feb 2012 we saw the figure of registered Syrian refugees sit at around 20,043.
This crisis is not new and our Government(s) have been aware of the rising level of refugees for quite some time.
Another sense of perspective:
The Wembley stadium has about 90,000 seats...
In 2014 over 690,000 babies were born in the UK!
Britain is currently terrified of accepting 20,000 refugees by 2020.
Update: Over 400,000 have signed a petition to seal the UK borders... People are fleeing from ISIS and Assad and now they are fleeing from bombs that we are dropping on them. The essentially argument against allowing refugees into Britain is that one of the terrorists in Paris was Syrian. Britain currently has an open border with Ireland and this might surprised people but the I.R.A were Irish! For the sake of peace we have held back on shutting down the borders and creating anti-Irish propaganda yet the Daily Mail has published a cartoon equating the Syrians to rats. See below:
The anti-refugee argument is purely a racial one developed on the back of fear and bigotry. People have only picked up on the Polish migrants as we have heard the Polish language being spoken and people only get angry when they hear the Polish langauge being spoken. When things appear 'white' and 'English' then our racist tendencies are put aside and we embrace one another and call each other brothers. Yet as soon as someone looks different or praises a different deity or speaks another language (Never mind that the British Empire was the most linguistically diverse empire ever until we crushed those languages) then all hell breaks loose. Cartoons like the one shown above are the same kind that were created and used against the Jews during the 1930s. Britain has a long way to go until it can pat itself on the back for being so "modern" and "accepting". If our media could stop using refugees as scapegoats that would go a long way. If the people of Britain could quit purchasing that vile piece of trash known as the Daily Mail that would be even better.
Links:
If you found any of this useful please share what I've written with a friend that might have asked you some questions about this or send me a message if you have other sources that might be useful. Overall I think fleeing from violence is a natural human reaction.
*Although those figures are from September 2015, from a glance they appear to have remained roughly the same. If you notice any discrepenancies please contact me and I will thank you + ammend the figures on here
I was asked a question about the Syrian refugee crisis and in a classic academic fashion I continued reading the literature until about 1am.
Right now Syria looks like Europe did after WW2..
Britain is currently fearful of the prospect of accepting 20,000 refugees over a five year period. That's 4,000 refugees a year.
To give a sense of perspective:
There are 9.5 million Syrians that are currently displaced.*
6.5 million displaced Syrians are still living within Syria.
3 million (out of the 9.5m) have fled Syria and are living within neighbouring countries.
There are over 4,000,000 registered Syrian refugees.
In 2014 there were 2,000,000 registered refugees from Syria.
In 2013 there were just under 500,000 registered refugees.
On the 17th of Feb 2012 we saw the figure of registered Syrian refugees sit at around 20,043.
This crisis is not new and our Government(s) have been aware of the rising level of refugees for quite some time.
Another sense of perspective:
The Wembley stadium has about 90,000 seats...
In 2014 over 690,000 babies were born in the UK!
Britain is currently terrified of accepting 20,000 refugees by 2020.
Update: Over 400,000 have signed a petition to seal the UK borders... People are fleeing from ISIS and Assad and now they are fleeing from bombs that we are dropping on them. The essentially argument against allowing refugees into Britain is that one of the terrorists in Paris was Syrian. Britain currently has an open border with Ireland and this might surprised people but the I.R.A were Irish! For the sake of peace we have held back on shutting down the borders and creating anti-Irish propaganda yet the Daily Mail has published a cartoon equating the Syrians to rats. See below:
The anti-refugee argument is purely a racial one developed on the back of fear and bigotry. People have only picked up on the Polish migrants as we have heard the Polish language being spoken and people only get angry when they hear the Polish langauge being spoken. When things appear 'white' and 'English' then our racist tendencies are put aside and we embrace one another and call each other brothers. Yet as soon as someone looks different or praises a different deity or speaks another language (Never mind that the British Empire was the most linguistically diverse empire ever until we crushed those languages) then all hell breaks loose. Cartoons like the one shown above are the same kind that were created and used against the Jews during the 1930s. Britain has a long way to go until it can pat itself on the back for being so "modern" and "accepting". If our media could stop using refugees as scapegoats that would go a long way. If the people of Britain could quit purchasing that vile piece of trash known as the Daily Mail that would be even better.
Links:
- 20,000 by 2020 : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34171148
- The figures about Syrian Refugees : syrianrefugees.eu/
- Registered refugee numbers: http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php
^There is some really insightful reading and statistics on there.
- BABIES!!! ^_^ http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/birth-summary-tables--england-and-wales/2014/stb-births-in-england-and-wales-2014.html
If you found any of this useful please share what I've written with a friend that might have asked you some questions about this or send me a message if you have other sources that might be useful. Overall I think fleeing from violence is a natural human reaction.
*Although those figures are from September 2015, from a glance they appear to have remained roughly the same. If you notice any discrepenancies please contact me and I will thank you + ammend the figures on here
