The presentation is about Europe migrant crisis in 2015. I talked about how new technology is key to survive the crisis for 21st-century migrants at Global Sociology course at Emory & Henry College.
3. Worst Refugee Crisis
11 million people were uprooted by violence in 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/09/world/migrants-global-refugee-crisis-mediterranean-ukraine-syria-rohingya-malaysia-iraq.html
Conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan
6. “BELGRADE, Serbia — The tens of thousands of migrants
who have flooded into the Balkans in recent weeks need
food, water and shelter, just like the millions displaced by
war the world over. But there is also one other thing they
swear they cannot live without:
by The New York Times
a smartphone charging station.”
7.
8. 21st-century version of a refugee crisis
● food
● water
● shelter
● Technology = Smartphone
Smartphone maps
Global positioning apps
Social media
WhatsApp
9. - to find the way
- to post real-time updates
- to get information
- to keep in touch with friends
and families
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?ref=world
10. “Every time I go to a new country, I buy a SIM card and
activate the Internet and download the map to locate
myself.”
Osama Aljasem, a rafuge from Syria in Belgrade
16. “For the U.N.H.C.R., there is a shift in understanding of what
assistance provision actually is,” said Christopher Earney
from the refugee agency’s innovation office in Geneva.
Christopher Earney from the refugee agency’s innovation office in Geneva.
20. The Main News Source :
The New York Times, A 21st-Century Migrant’s Checklist: Water, Shelter, Smartphone, http:
//www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-
shelter-smartphone.html?ref=world
The other sources:
- The whole Syria will pass through Serbia”: Belgrade to face five million refugees, http:
//inserbia.info/today/2015/08/the-whole-syria-will-pass-through-serbia-belgrade-to-
face-five-million-refugees/
- U.N. Predicts 3,000 Migrants a Day Will Pass Through Balkans, http://www.nytimes.
com/2015/08/26/world/europe/migrant-crisis-europe-un.html
- The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations, http://www.
nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/09/world/migrants-global-refugee-crisis-
mediterranean-ukraine-syria-rohingya-malaysia-iraq.html
- World Refugee Day: Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time in post-
World War II era, http://www.unhcr.org/53a155bc6.html
- Global Refugee Trends 2013 - June 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ClL1mQv4vm8&feature=youtu.be
- WPR, http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/serbia-population/
- Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia