Refugees

Karen Lopez Cornejo

02/17/2016

SOC 111

Refugees

Refugees are fearing that the US is no longer a place for them for the due cause of President Trump and therefore they are travelling to Canada. Although in addition they are also trying to work around with the "Safe Third Country Agreement," which states that it is required of refugees to file asylum claims in which ever nation of the two, U.S. or Canada, they may arrive first. Immigration lawyers and refugee rights organizations are revisiting the agreement for reasons such as dangerous crossings. This agreement is meant to prevent migration issues internally and asylum claims that are cross-border. Rights organizations and lawyers argue that systems in the U.S. and Canada are too different for this agreement be fit and fair for all refugees, and therefore should be voided to prevent refugees from putting their life in danger getting to Canada for more favourable conditions such as the asylum process and climate. Refugees are also crossing because once they cross the border the agreement doesn't apply, so for example, once they're in Canada they can apply for the asylum in Canada. Though Canada does not have interest in revisiting this agreement, a Canadian government spokesperson stated that there isn't any indication that the executive order has impact on the asylum system in America. Until the Agreement is revisited the U.S. does not want this illegal crossing to Canada.

Refugees quantities have risen to over 20 million fleeing to places such as Turkey, Germany, and the U.S. The international community is telling the UN Refugee Convention signatories to keep on helping refugees, but Japan has not been taking much part of this help. Japan has only taken in 28 refugees in the year 2016. Japan does not like the idea of a society being multi-cultural and that is why its is difficult to become a Japanese citizen. Therefore it is even more difficult for asylum seekers but the point in question for Japan has recently been why have they let in any refugees at all then?