Prepare: At this point in the course, you should have completed a rough draft of your Final Argumentative Essay. In preparation for this discussion, make a list of what you learned most throughout this process, as well as difficulties you may have encountered along the way. Reflect: Think about what you have learned in the development of your research findings on the global societal issue you chose in the Week Two Discussion, your proposed solution, and its ethical outcomes, and share with your classmates why this specific issues requires further research. Write: For this discussion, you will address the following prompts: •Identify the global societal issue you have chosen to research for your Final Argumentative Essay and explain why further research on this topic is important. • Provide a clear and concise thesis statement that includes a solution to the global societal issue. • Explain how this global societal issue impacts a specific population. • Locate a peer-reviewed scholarly source and provide statistical data that you found surprising on the topic. Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference information of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations and references. PAPER TO HELP WITH DISCUSSION A refugee is an individual that seeks shelter in a different country other than their own from a political, environmental or economic reason that directly threatens their lives (Sharma, 2015). The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) oversees the protection and livelihood of refugees under the international law, a practice that spans more than 100 years. The current statistics show refugees exceed 20 million individuals across the world (Sharma, 2015). This is a large population and represents a lot of displaced productivity. There are advantages and disadvantages related to refugees that fall on both the home and the hosting countries. The focus is ensuring the disadvantages are minimizing to the benefit of both countries to provide an environment that would minimize the suffering experienced by the refugees. This consideration promotes the chances of resolving the refugee crisis. Reversing the situation would ensure an aggregate increase in economic, social and political progress at a global level. Increasing the global GDP and establishing effective income distribution plans should be able to satisfy the needs of the refugees as well as those of citizens in their own countries. Most of the conflicts leading to conflicts in particular countries arise from greed that allows a few powerful people to take a substantial part of the resources (Taylor, Filipski, Alloush, Gupta, Valdes, & Gonzalez-Estr.

1. Prepare:
At this point in the course, you should have completed a rough
draft of your Final Argumentative Essay. In preparation for this
discussion, make a list of what you learned most throughout this
process, as well as difficulties you may have encountered along
the way.
Reflect:
Think about what you have learned in the development of your
research findings on the global societal issue you chose in the
Week Two Discussion, your proposed solution, and its ethical
outcomes, and share with your classmates why this specific
issues requires further research.
Write:
For this discussion, you will address the following prompts:
•Identify the global societal issue you have chosen to research
for your Final Argumentative Essay and explain why further
research on this topic is important.
•
Provide a clear and concise thesis statement that includes a
solution to the global societal issue.
•
Explain how this global societal issue impacts a specific
population.
•
Locate a peer-reviewed scholarly source and provide statistical

2. data that you found surprising on the topic.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which
should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are
required to provide in-text citations of applicable required
reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to
support your claims. Provide full reference information of all
sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct
APA format when writing in-text citations and references.
PAPER TO HELP WITH DISCUSSION
A refugee is an individual that seeks shelter in a different
country other than their own from a political, environmental or
economic reason that directly threatens their lives (Sharma,
2015). The United Nations High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) oversees the protection and livelihood of refugees
under the international law, a practice that spans more than 100
years. The current statistics show refugees exceed 20 million
individuals across the world (Sharma, 2015). This is a large
population and represents a lot of displaced productivity. There
are advantages and disadvantages related to refugees that fall on
both the home and the hosting countries. The focus is ensuring
the disadvantages are minimizing to the benefit of both
countries to provide an environment that would minimize the
suffering experienced by the refugees. This consideration
promotes the chances of resolving the refugee crisis. Reversing
the situation would ensure an aggregate increase in economic,

3. social and political progress at a global level.
Increasing the global GDP and establishing effective income
distribution plans should be able to satisfy the needs of the
refugees as well as those of citizens in their own countries.
Most of the conflicts leading to conflicts in particular countries
arise from greed that allows a few powerful people to take a
substantial part of the resources (Taylor, Filipski, Alloush,
Gupta, Valdes, & Gonzalez-Estrada, 2016). Therefore, the
conflicts ensure such countries lose their productive power in
terms of labor and end up not maximizing the use of the
resources. Meanwhile, the host country is showered by an influx
of the workforce yet lack in a proper way to utilize their
expertise. Furthermore, there never is a standard provision for
refugees in policy nor resource wise. Therefore, development of
proper absorption and utilization of the manpower for maximum
production would not only stabilize the lives of the refugees but
also allow them to reorganize their personal economic status in
readiness for the trip back to their home country (Taylor,
Filipski, Alloush, Gupta, Valdes, & Gonzalez-Estrada, 2016).
Empowering refugees and providing stability makes it easy for
them to transfer the effects to their home countries.
Unfortunately, most of the refugee plans are never designed
alongside this pattern. Most refugee plans hold onto the hosting
section while awaiting the calm in the home country so as to
start sending the refugees back. Unfortunately most of the
feuding home countries have conflicts that persist indefinitely.
There are contentious issues that hinder potential reversal plans
and allow the reality of refugee absolute empowerment to
remain a pipe dream. The global refugee system in terms of
protecting refugees is broken from the start (Dunn, 2016).
The developed countries perceive the refugee crisis as a

4. problem for other nations other their own. They employ closed
border excuses and get horrified at the idea of being flooded by
the unwanted foreigners. They are filthy rich but would not
directly absorb refugees and only make demonstrations in
pursuit of higher favors or recognition. Therefore, such nations
have conveniently made it possible for developing countries
deemed to be poor to physically accommodate a large refugee
population comprising of 86% while selectively sharing the
remaining 14% or less based on the deaths in transit (Dunn,
2016). The situation is getting worse as such developed
countries have started to ignore requests for contribution to
humanitarian aid while reducing their annual remittances to the
United Nations bodies. In essence, this is adding more pressure
on the resources of the hosting, yet poor nations.
Critics of the complete empowerment programs site various
social problems that come with refugees. They believe the
refugees add to social vices, are psychologically unstable, are
active carriers of regional diseases, and provide effective
infrastructure for terrorism or smuggling businesses, among
other reasons (Kastrup, 2016). Such inhibitions pull back full
empowerment of the refugees and they are systematically
limited in their new homes. Providing full settlement is one way
of reversing the crisis because it allows the refugees more time
to focus on solutions in their home countries. This involves
hosting governments stopping racial discrimination and
xenophobia (Kastrup, 2016).
Annotated Bibliography
Sharma, B. B. (2015). Revisiting the United Nations' 1951
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees: A Critical

5. Analysis of the International Refugee Law. Social Development
Issues, 37(2), 80-94.
The research carries an evaluation of the United Nations 1951
convention about the refugees’ status. Furthermore, it explores
the international refugee law that was enacted and promised
exhaustive implementation of rights identified as essential for
protecting refugees. This was an essential document in the wake
of the effects of the Second World War characterized by the
largest number of refugees. The book explores topics such as
the disregard of human life, systematic mistreatment and forced
displacement, with the aim of eliminating repeat incidences on
how the refugees were handled during and after the war. The
analysis contained in the book connects legal and historical
contexts in line with liberty, fraternity and equality. This study
is important in giving direction to some of the neglected
provisions that made sense in history and can still apply to the
reversal of the refugee crisis into a positive outlook.
Taylor, J. E., Filipski, M. J., Alloush, M., Gupta, A., Valdes, R.
I. R., & Gonzalez-Estrada, E. (2016). Economic impact of
refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
201604566.
A survey in the year 2015 by the UNHCR indicated its
accommodation of over 15 million refugees that were mostly in
poor/ developing countries.
The World Food Program fed the population both in kind or
using money. This study acknowledges the limited yet
controversial understanding of how the refugees impact the host
country. The study explores three refugee camps in Rwanda of

6. the Congolese people and the immediate radius of Ten
kilometers. This study focus on the economic impact and the
findings included the significant role played by the spillover
effect of cash-aid to the surrounding region. Both households
and businesses recorded some economic improvement where
every time a single refugee adult was introduced to the camps
and accesses cash-aid led to an increase in the annual real
income ranging from $205 to a maximum of $253. There was
also an increase in trade within the region and the rest of the
country estimated through a range of 49 to 55 dollars. The aid
in cash had a greater impact than the aid in kind.
Dunn, E. C. (2016). Refugee protection and resettlement
problems. Science, 352(6287), 772-773.
The European Union saw an influx of refugees and migrants
exceeding One million during the year 2015. This is a very tiny
fraction of the global refugee population estimated to be
approximately 59.5 million refugees in the same year.
Humanitarian aid to serve the population had suddenly been on
the decline leading to poor supply of basic needs and
healthcare. The main study is in focused on Georgian refugee
camps that had a faulty system of humanitarian assistance. The
findings indicate the growing insufficient aid that hinders the
progress of refugees. This study is important because it shows
how developed nations are gradually distancing themselves
from the refugee crisis and letting the developing countries to
struggle with the same.
Kastrup, M. (2016). The impact of racism and discrimination on

7. mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. European
Psychiatry, 33, S43.
The increased terrorism in the recent decades is reflected in
security concerns in the host country when dealing with
refugees. The rights of refugees are constantly being violated
under the anti-terrorism policies. The racism elements are also
on the rise as well as the other discrimination aspects.
Inequality and refugee perception is an additional source of
stress to the already inconvenienced refugees. The consequences
are development of secondary conflicts in the hosting country
between the refugees and the residents or authorities. The
psychological impact cannot also be ignored as more refugees
continue to deteriorate health wise. This study explores the
medical implications as well as ethical dilemmas encountered
by both the refugees and the host country residents. The
findings are important in determining the important role played
by the host nation in either helping the refugees or making
reversal of the refugee crisis an impossible pursuit.
References
Dunn, E. C. (2016). Refugee protection and resettlement
problems. Science, 352(6287), 772-773.
Kastrup, M. (2016). The impact of racism and discrimination on
mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. European
Psychiatry, 33, S43.

8. Sharma, B. B. (2015). Revisiting the United Nations' 1951
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:. A Critical
Analysis of the International Refugee Law. Social Development
Issues, 37(2), 80-94.
Taylor, J. E., Filipski, M. J., Alloush, M., Gupta, A., Valdes, R.
I. R., & Gonzalez-Estrada, E. (2016). Economic impact of
refugees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
201604566.