Quincy Buickerood

March 12, 2018

Policy Paper #1

United Kingdom: Refugee Policy Paper

Policy Statement:

The United Nations needs to create a policy that creates a proportionate number

of allowed refugees based on a country's size, protect the human rights of refugees by

providing education, and find a reasonable solution for the lack of funds going to top

hosting countries.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there are 65.6 million forcibly

displaced people worldwide. This was more than the 7-9 million refugees the United

States Holocaust Memorial Museum claimed there were in WWII. The British Red Cross

reports that Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan create the most refugees. In

Figures at a Glance the United Nations Refugee Agency claims that Turkey Lebanon,

Jordan, and Iraq house the most refugees. The United Nations Refugee Agency adds

on that richer countries like The United States, The United Kingdom, France, and

Germany house just a fraction of the refugees housed by Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and

Iraq. AJPlus talks about the Gulf countries that are some of the richest countries in the

world like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and The United Arab Emirates. Not only have these

countries taken in exactly zero refugees, they are also adding to the conflict in Syria and

other countries creating the largest number of refugees.

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The current prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, is part of the

conservative and is resistant to allowing refugees into the UK. Alan Travis from the

Guardian reports that Theresa May has made it her mission not to take part in the

UNHCR-run scheme. In a speech recorded by the BBC, David Cameron said that by

2020 the UK will have accepted 20,000 refugees. In the same speech, David Cameron

states they have provided sanctuary to more than 5,000 refugees in Britain, but David

Cameron says “It is right that we should do much more.” The United Nations Refugee

Agency writes that asylum seekers in the UK are given housing and £5.28 a day for

food, sanitation, and clothing. The BBC reports that the United Kingdom has spent £1.1

billion on tents food and other humanitarian aid for refugees since 2012. The BBC also

states that the Uk has offered £10 million to help vulnerable refugee minors already in

Europe.

In order to protect the human rights of refugees, kids of school age will be sent to

school every day to receive an education. Kids that have no parents or if they are

separated from their parents they will be put into orphanages. Adults that are able to

work will be given the opportunity to work. The money for these things will be provided

from the other counties that do not host as many refugees. The money that is used will

be put back into the country/community that is hosting the refugees and help keep that

country stable. Negative connotations and biases against refugees will not end

immediately, but over time people will start to see that their new neighbors will not be a

negative thing in the country but a positive addition to the culture and economy
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Work Cited:

British Red Cross. ​Refugees and Asylum Seekers​. ​Refugees and Asylum Seekers​, The British
Red Cross Society, 2016,
www.redcross.org.uk/~/media/BritishRedCross/Documents/What%20we%20do/Refugee
%20support/Mythbuster%20booklet%202016.pdf​.

United Nations Refugee Agency United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United
Nations Refugee Agency. “Figures at a Glance.” ​UNHCR​, Accessed 8 Mar. 2018,
www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html​.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “Postwar Refugee Crisis and the Establishment of
the State of Israel.” ​United States Holocaust Memorial Museum​, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Accessed 8 Mar. 2018,
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005459​.

United Nations Refugee Agency. ​Global Trends.​ ​Global Trends ​, UNHCR, 2016,
https://s3.amazonaws.com/unhcrsharedmedia/2016/2016-06-20-global-trends/2016-06-1
4-Global-Trends-2015.pdf

AJPlus. “Refugee Crisis: What's The World's Responsibility?” ​YouTube​, YouTube, 8 Sept.
2015,​www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0Db8L6Jso&list=PL2Y6s2lvXN3T1o7sFsU9uaSd6
YgVPFPHL&index=7​.

Travis, Alan. “Theresa May on Refugees .” ​The Guardian​, Guardian News and Media, 30 Jan.
2017,​www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/30/us-travel-ban-may-is-ahead-of-trump-in-
undermining-refugee-protection-system​.

Cameron, David, and BBC. “UK to Accept 20,000 Refugees from Syria by 2020.” ​BBC News​,
BBC, 7 Sept. 2015, ​www.bbc.com/news/uk-34171148​.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Refugee Agency. “Asylum in
the UK.” ​UNHCR​, Assessed 8 Mar. 2018, ​www.unhcr.org/en-us/asylum-in-the-uk.html​.