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Swirling Problems of Immigration in European Countries Recent news show that European countries have been struggling with the massive influx of immigrants. The biggest newspaper in the country, Kompas, even put an image of a kid trying to crawl underneath an iron fence as a soldier trying to kick her out so that she doesn’t get in. That image was put as a front cover of the newspaper three days ago. The world also pays attention to European Countries and the massive waves of immigrants from Syria that they have been facing. Some European countries welcomed these immigrants as they are classified as refugees that face prosecutions in their countries. The refugees status allows them to be legal immigrants. Meanwhile, some other countries do not treat believe those immigrants are entitled to be refugees. Where did these immigrants come from and what caused them to flight to Europe? To make a long story short, those immigrants ran away from their country from the ruthless of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ISIS is currently ruling the parts of the Middle East states including Syria, where most of refugees came from. In order to flee from the brutality of ISIS, those people chose to leave their homeland for Europe. There are hundreds of thousands of people that decide to do so in this circumstances. If you open the map of Europe, you can see that there are several ways to get to Europe from Syria: by land or sea. Either way, these refugees are facilitated by smugglers to get to the European land. Now the first problem here is that there are smugglers that decided to make some money from these immigrants by illegal procedures. These illegal procedures that obviously doesn’t have a standard safety procedures has taken hundreds of life already and still counting. As for those left, they were struggling to survive until they reach the European land. There are three most commonly where the refugee by sea would turn up, in Greece, Italy, or Hungary as they were the countries that has Mediterranean sea as their borders. Among the countries that disagree to accept them are Hungary. Hungary sees these refugees as those that aren’t refugees at all as they were thought to be those who live in the coast side of Suriah or perhaps from another country in the middle east. Plus, they wanted these immigrants to enter the country properly with visas and passports while probably most of them doesn’t have anything of that sort. Due to that, Hungary decided to build the iron fence where the kid’s photo was taken. The fence was build to prevent these immigrants to get in the country illegally without official papers while the immigrants claimed that they’re only passing by Hungary to get to Germany where they welcome the refugees. If we take a look back in 1951, an agreement was signed by most of the European Countries that includes Germany and Hungary, about Refugee Protection that all those that signed must accept Refugees that seeks for better living due to the conflicts in their origin country. They were ready that time, but for the incoming hundreds and thousands of refugees? Second problem that occurs was that there are still phobias around Europe regarding to Muslims. Due to the bombing in London and the riot in France a while ago, the way of European sees Muslims are mostly negative, especially with ISIS freaking the world out

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A piece of writting for my EDS entry test. Talked about the problems regarding Immigration waves in Europe

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Page 1: Swirling Problems of Swirling Problems of Immigration in European CountriesImmigration in European Countries

Swirling Problems of Immigration in European Countries

Recent news show that European countries have been struggling with the massive

influx of immigrants. The biggest newspaper in the country, Kompas, even put an image of

a kid trying to crawl underneath an iron fence as a soldier trying to kick her out so that she

doesn’t get in. That image was put as a front cover of the newspaper three days ago. The

world also pays attention to European Countries and the massive waves of immigrants from

Syria that they have been facing. Some European countries welcomed these immigrants as

they are classified as refugees that face prosecutions in their countries. The refugees status

allows them to be legal immigrants. Meanwhile, some other countries do not treat believe

those immigrants are entitled to be refugees.

Where did these immigrants come from and what caused them to flight to Europe?

To make a long story short, those immigrants ran away from their country from the ruthless

of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ISIS is currently ruling the parts of the Middle

East states including Syria, where most of refugees came from. In order to flee from the

brutality of ISIS, those people chose to leave their homeland for Europe. There are hundreds

of thousands of people that decide to do so in this circumstances.

If you open the map of Europe, you can see that there are several ways to get to

Europe from Syria: by land or sea. Either way, these refugees are facilitated by smugglers to

get to the European land. Now the first problem here is that there are smugglers that

decided to make some money from these immigrants by illegal procedures. These illegal

procedures that obviously doesn’t have a standard safety procedures has taken hundreds of

life already and still counting. As for those left, they were struggling to survive until they

reach the European land. There are three most commonly where the refugee by sea would

turn up, in Greece, Italy, or Hungary as they were the countries that has Mediterranean sea

as their borders.

Among the countries that disagree to accept them are Hungary. Hungary sees these

refugees as those that aren’t refugees at all as they were thought to be those who live in the

coast side of Suriah or perhaps from another country in the middle east. Plus, they wanted

these immigrants to enter the country properly with visas and passports while probably most

of them doesn’t have anything of that sort. Due to that, Hungary decided to build the iron

fence where the kid’s photo was taken. The fence was build to prevent these immigrants to

get in the country illegally without official papers while the immigrants claimed that they’re

only passing by Hungary to get to Germany where they welcome the refugees. If we take a

look back in 1951, an agreement was signed by most of the European Countries that

includes Germany and Hungary, about Refugee Protection that all those that signed must

accept Refugees that seeks for better living due to the conflicts in their origin country. They

were ready that time, but for the incoming hundreds and thousands of refugees?

Second problem that occurs was that there are still phobias around Europe regarding

to Muslims. Due to the bombing in London and the riot in France a while ago, the way of

European sees Muslims are mostly negative, especially with ISIS freaking the world out

Page 2: Swirling Problems of Swirling Problems of Immigration in European CountriesImmigration in European Countries

already from far. So these phobias somehow became a stereotype that leads to racism

towards the Muslims that are mostly what the Refugees consist of. And with these Refugees

coming in big numbers, a big protests towards them aren’t a surprise at all as to they are

afraid that conflicts would begin from them for the country.

So those are some of the highlights of the problem that swirls regarding to the

immigration in European Country. One thing for sure, as humans we have to help each other

in any way we can. And all these immigrants want was to find a place they can call ‘home’

after their original home was turned down to ashes by the conflicts in their country that they

have no idea what purpose would it do to the world. And everyone deserves a place they can

call ‘home’ no matter what they believed in, their skin color, or the language they spoke.