Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Death Of Alan Kurdi
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What is a refugee: people who seek refuge from marginalization and fear from their own nation, these refugees have legal status and legal rights. Who are the refugees: 20,000,000 human beings are extremely vulnerable and half are under. 18: country harboring the largest amount of refugees is turkey. Why now: alan kurdi and the boy who drowned off the syrian coast has sparked outrage and a necessary response to the current situation in syria and refugees around the world. Refugee crisis in europe: europe"s quota plan to take in 160,000 from an original 20,000 or. 0. 2% of all syrian refugees: some countries are resisting and the threat dissolves the open borders that the eu has, hundreds of thousands more to come germany committed, canada not committed yet. Syria and denmark: syria: civil war, over 200,000 killed since 2011, population originally over 20 million people, 1 in 100 have been killed.