Refugees Who are Seeking Asylum

Refugees

According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) definition, "refugee is some who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence" (“The UN Refuge Agency”). People who seek for asylum have a justified fear of persecution for many reasons such as race, nationality or political issues. Most of refugees can't return back their home or afraid to do so. On other side, there is kind of people who are called internally displaced person (IDP) who have been defined by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a people who have as same as refugees conditions except that they still remaining in their own country and they can't across an international border. In addition, internally displaced persons are not protected by the international law or eligible to get some types of assistance. Last few decades, because of many wars has taken place among the countries, the number of both refugee and internally displaced persons has increased significantly. According to statistics from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), published in 2010, for many reasons, like civil war, violence and poverty. More than 60,000 people in the world flee every year from their homeland to the United States in order to get refugees' right. Some of these people fled of war, persecution or oppression. The most people who are seeking for refugee rights come from Myanmar, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Bhutan. The life of refuges is full of fear and social problems. The most important to refugees is the acceptance of the citizens to them in the new place when the refugees may not be able to return back their home ever again. According to the UN Refugee Agency, the problem of refugees and their right...

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