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AP Language period 4
Mr. Phillips
December 12, 2016
Refugees in Germany
One of the most controversial topics of conversations we hear daily is
refugees and the debates as to where they should go and if they should be let into a
specific country, and Germany is one where people who are fleeing from Syria,
seeking shelter and safety. Syrias civil war is creating wave of refugees into other
countries because of the dangers that come with the war currently going on in Syria,
making it unsafe and even impossible for it to live in certain areas, forcing them to
leave their home and lives that they had been living. When there is such a surge of
population coming into countries a domino effect is created making many things come
into play when accepting new people into countries. One of the things that is part of
the domino effect is the economy and how refugees and affecting it daily. Refugees
are having and will continue to have a positive impact on Germanys economic growth
because of the growing labor market and a multitude of other things created because
of the population surge.
Germanys acceptance rate of refugees has been very high, but with it being
so high Germany has to do something about it because of the effects that it is having
on germans lives. Many types of people are a part of the population surge that is
coming in, one of those being asylum seekers. Asylum seekers are those who fled
their home country because of danger and are seeking sanctuary. With over one
million people seeking asylum every year, Germany needed to start turning them
away because of the limited amount of sanctuary (Asylum-Seekers). Along with
those seeking sanctuary/asylum, ones who are not get turned down, Even if the
conditions of asylum are met, we will send back those refugees who do not wish to
apply for asylum in Germany (Germany Turning Refugees Back). This makes it
appear that Germany is trying to follow the EUs rules, where refugees have to claim
asylum before they enter an EU nation (A DISCUSSION ON THE REFUGEE CRISIS
IN EUROPE). Paolo Gentioli, an Italian prime minister, claims The European Union
has two possibilities - either it suffers the consequences of the migrant flow or it tries
to control it. It can control it if it acts in a united way and if it recognizes rules thought
up a quarter of a century ago are no longer suitable for the flows we are seeing
today, which demonstrates why Germany would change its rules coming to letting in
refugees, as it shows they are opposed to it in the quote, Mrs Merkel had effectively
suspended the rules when she said Germany would take Syrian refugees regardless
of which EU state they entered first. Now she has pledged to reduce the number of
refugees (DISCUSSION ON..). With Germany turning away over 220,000 refugees,
they are losing the new labor sources that they could get out of the new incoming
refugees. Germanys unemployment rate has gone down, due to the gained
population of immigrants. The unemployment has gone from 5.01 million unemployed
in 2005 to 2.68 million unemployed, and the rate of unemployment is at 6.1%, the
lowest in 26 years and the highest being in 2005 with 12.1% unemployment rate
(Germany economy: Quick View - Unemployment rate stable at 6.1%). Since 2005,
there has been more refugees than ever before, and because of that the creation of
jobs were needed, causing the unemployment rate to decrease. When an area
becomes more populated, there is a need of more people working to build new
homes, growing food and other essential things needed for incoming refugees to be
able to live substantially, Supported by the influx of migrants in 2015 and firm levels
of household spending, employment has continued to expand at a solid pace this
year. There are more employment opportunities that are associated with refugees
than previously mentioned. The biggest area where employment has grown is the
area of refugee management, refugees have created a new area of jobs
unintentionally because there is such a surge of people coming into the country there
needs to be people managing them while they are trying to find shelter in Germany.
Refugees have already created an impact on Germany with the jobs that
they create, but the immigration wave will cause the European GDP (gross domestic
product) to increase (Goldstein). Refugees are only allowed to work in the informal
sector, where they do not need an education to do the job successfully. The refugees
always earn less than the citizens in the country they are working for. Even if the
refugee has better experience and an education in a certain field than a native to the
country, they are still downgraded to the job that pays less and needs no experience
to perform well in that job. In the short term, the IMF says the refugee surge is likely
to lead to a modest increase in GDP growth, due to both the extra money spent by
governments to support asylum seekers and the expansion of the labor supply, and it
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