Refugees and the cause from Environmental Disasters: Blog 9

In the last few years, 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes because conflict, political problems, and most importantly environmental disasters have forced them out. The World Disasters Repor, according to Mark Tran, said many migrants are permanently dispossessed, making many governments and humanitarian agencies adopt different ways to approach migration. Thus resulting to a forced migration of 8 billion dollars a year. According to Professor Roger Zetter, 1 in every 100 people are displaced by general conflict and natural disasters. These reports have even become urbanized as areas become larger areas for refugees, IDPs, and everyone who runs. These overpopulated areas have resulted in 10.5 million refugees and 13 million IDPs being forced to live in urban areas.

                Within the past few years, cities in Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Yemen, and Haiti have been affected by overpopulated people because of war fumes, and natural or destructive disasters. Kabul, according to Tran, grew from 1 million inhabitants, to 4.5 million. This was driven by returning refugees, and IDPs fleeing the country because of the Taliban bombings and force. Thus resulting in the placement of 3.9 people in the population in Columbia.  This increasing number is said to force the humanitarian agencies to adapt to the forced migration by expanding the range of camps. This means that there will be large areas of vulnerability and overpopulation which can cause worse climate changes and shifts in the atmosphere.

                These refugees create a problem with numbers within and for organizations that have to try to make groups, councils, and authorities to keep the bodies in line. There have to be many different housing, land, and property rights that have to be given to the refugees. This creates a problem because of deforestation to build many different and new properties, as well as room for more land to house more people.

                Concerns continue to rise for refugees who have no intent to return home because they are trapped in protracted exile. These number adds up to almost 20 million refugees, thus resulting to the relaxed restrictions on the economic activities of the idp refugees to help populations disperse quickly. States, however, can grant residency for these people who can then create businesses, hold academic qualifications, and fill shortages in jobs, so there is a plus in the economy, but some groups that are trying for this cause have been unsuccessful.

                These jobs and businesses could greatly boost our economy, taking people out of lower poverty lines and bringing them into a higher class ratio, thus diminishing the awful percentages for our unemployment rates that we have now.  There are two different ideas within this problem: the concern for deforestation, but also the additions to our broken economy. Either way it goes; there are also positives and negatives to this mass migration of people. It helps, but it also is destructive, thus leaving our world to think about the best options for the people who live within it. 

Source: NY times article