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Ana Cabrera-Perez

Mr.Taylor

English II Honors

10 January 2019

Forced Displacement

“Every year over 60 million people are forcibly displaced”(UNHCR). This problem has

increased over the years because the amount of violence and poverty in developing countries is

constantly rising. Many times we hear how countries are deteriorating because their economy is

not improving, but will we do something about it? Forcibly displaced people are people that have

been forced out of their homes or land. The forcibly displaced do not only put themselves in

possible danger but cause negative impacts on the host country. By helping the forcibly

displaced thier life and the host country can improve.

Every year the number of people being forcibly displaced is increasing, this causes a

decrease in the host country's economy. Millions of people flee thier homes by force or on their

own because conditions are unbearable, they leave without any plan on where to go or how

they’re going to get a job. A large majority of the forcibly displaced flee their homes for reasons

such as war/violence, natural disasters, food shortage, or poverty. All of these examples give

reasons for us to really think about how our world is today, and how its only going to get worse

if we do not take action. These people leave their homes “blind”, they not only themselves in

danger but it puts the country in a temporarily depleting state.

As the number of displaced people increases so does the demand for public services,

because “When forced migrants arrive in large numbers in a poor region, they place an enormous

strain on public services” (Dadush). Wages are doing to drop, there will be a rise in social
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imbalance (discrimination), and new diseases will emerge in host countries. Demands for more

public services will increase, because there needs to be more accommodations for the increasing

population, such as hospitals, homes, and food. Disease is a very serious topic as well because

the arrivals are bringing along diseases from their homeland and exposing the natives to them. If

not treated immediately it could cause an epidemic in the new land. As the population increases

the demand for more workers rises, this means wages will drop as an adjustment to more

workers. The new arrivals might be seen as threats to the homelanders because they don't know

them. All of the reasons above are big problems that need to be faced, especially when there are

many displaced arriving in poor countries. They go to places where there are very few job

opportunities for them, resulting in few pay for them. Many of these people are fleeing to

countries that are already poor, instead of having positive effects on the country it results in the

country being under immense pressure to build more public services. Allowing this problem to

continue could result in, already depleting, countries to become bankrupt. And, cause outbreaks

in developed countries because of the decreasing wages.

A possible solution to this problem is for all developed countries to help fund

underdeveloped countries, where conditions are indigent. Positive outcomes of this will be that

less arrivals will have to leave their homes, as well as give the developing countries a chance to

grow economically and attain better living conditions for its people. First, developed countries

will cooperate by giving a percentage of money every year to the growing country so they have

money to improve. Next, new job opportunities will open for the people. An example of this is:

roads can be made by hand, by doing this everyone will have a stable job for a couple of years.

Problems with this solution are that some countries may not want to contribute because they may

think the government might not be able to distribute the money appropriately. And, others may
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not want to risk money for something that may not work. Rebuttals to the arguments are: the

government will know what to do because they want to see their country grow so they have more

opportunities. By giving money to them people will see how much their living conditions have

improved and will want to keep working so their conditions either stay the same or get better,

they will not want to go back to their previous living conditions.

“31 people are newly displaced every minute of the day ”and mostly going to developing

countries (UNHCR). To help improve this problem developed countries could donate money to

to help stabilize thier government. If this problem continues not only will overpopulation worsen

and growing countries will be destroyed, but over “100,000 children are going to be separated”

(5 Causes). For every person that flees their home in search of better conditions, the worse

conflict gets, the worse poverty gets all over the world. Do we really want to see countries being

slowly forgotten because everyone left, slowly forgotten because no one wanted to help? Take

action and help the forcibly displaced.

Works Cited

“5 Causes of Forced Migration.” Concern

www.concernusa.org/story/5-causes-forced-migration/.
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Dadush, Uri, and Mona Niebuhr. “The Economic Impact of Forced Migration.” Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace,

www.carnegieendowment.org/2016/04/22/economic-impact-of-forced-migration-pub-63

421.

“UNHCR Global Trends - Forced Displacement in 2017.” UNHCR,

www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2017/.