Refugees in the United
Kingdom
By Guy Cohen
Muhammad Kumar
Sharma
What are refugees?
-2017 Pakistani
refugee from
Kashmir
• Refugees are people who escaped their country to avoid
conflict violence or persecution.
• Examples such as the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine,
seeing more than 5 million Ukrainians escape to the rest
of Europe and the USA.
• Most refugees are asylum seeker, rarely even a forced
self-exile by a politican/activist, as for example the king
of Ethiopia between 1936 to 1945.
• Some refugees are stateless people, either by their
home country being conquered or by being deported.
They are also commonly asylum seekers. They, under
the law, don’t have a right to healthcare or education for
example.
The major refugee sources of
the world
• The largest refugees sources affecting modern Britain
include the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Syrian
civil war, the Yemeni civil war, the Afghanistan war, the
Iraq war, the Yugoslav wars and the wars in Sudan.
• Ukraine, the Middle East and South Asia have all been
rapidly exporting immigrants. Many immigrants also
arrive through North Africa from Sub-Sahara Africa.
They take exhausting routes through the Sahara, to
make a makeshift boat to Europe through the
mediterreanean.
Who are Britain’s refugees?
• The UK made one of the largest efforts to help
refugees, providing free housing, healthcare,
education and food stamps.
• Therefore its no surprise that Britain has taken
in 240,000 refugees, and ontop of that 1.2M of
long term migration, with the top 5 countries
being India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran and
Pakistan.
• In one year alone (2022/23) Britain spent 4
billion pounds accomadating the 240,000
refugees.
European foreigners now account
only for 33% of non-UK birth
mother’s origin.
Number of Refugees over the
Why do we give asylum to years
these people?
• Asylum Seekers are often people who otherwise
could never make it back in their homeland.
Immigrants also come here for better economic
purposes.
This subject of “Should we” has been turned into less
of a moral question and more an objective one. It has
been an ongoing debate in the UK parliament for the
past couple years, and now the left-wing parties want
immigration and refugees, while the right-wing
parties are against it. What are their arguments?
UK average net contribution split by
natives, EEA (EU+Switzerland and
The Anti- Norway) and non-EEA (Rest of World)
Refugee outlook
• The primary arguments of anti-refugee movement
is 3 simple stats: The economic contribution of
refugees, the uneven crime statistics of refugees
and the cultural differences of refugees.
• Refugees on average contribute less than their Crime rate of different nationality
native and EEA immigrant counterparts. immigrants in Denmark, a popular
• They also commit crime disproportionally to the statistic used by anti-immigrants.
native British population.
• Cultural differences such as religion and customs,
may affect the native culture, which hurts its
uniqueness and by that certain point, may be
considered displacement. (eg. Egypt’s
Arabization.)
The Pro-Refugee outlook
The primary argument used by pro refugees is
emotion; It is also objectivity. The primary
arguments go as such: The asylum-seekers suffering
in home country, the pro-economic support after
integration, and the human species brotherhood.
• The asylum seekers usually come from
underdeveloped countries in midst of wars or
conflicts, making it a death sentence or a harsh
life to deport them back.
• Statistics reflect that most asylum seekers end up
contributing to the economy after integration.
• We must also remember that these refugee
seekers, despite their different look, religion or Refugees (part of Non EEA)
culture, are still humans just like us. contributing on the same level as
natives
Whats the Summary?
• Up to you. There are also extremist views, such as Globalism and
Radical Nationalism, complete opposites, where globalists don’t like
borders at all and radical nationalists want isolation and (almost)
complete stop of immigration.
