The Syrian Refugees And The Future: A Sample Term Paper For Inspiration & Mimicking

The civil war in Syria continued for the last five years have five different aspects for the Syrian immigrants, and the host countries’ people: social aspect, security aspect, economic aspect, and political aspect. In 2013, 583,000 Syrian immigrants ran away from their countries, and most of the Syrian immigrants preferred the closest destination to save their lives. However, the political situation got deteriorated in Syria, and more and more Syrians had to move away from their countries. In the following years, many of the Syrian immigrants preferred the countries from which they could pass to the developed countries of the European continent. As a result of this, Turkey became the host country which received a majority of the immigrants, 1.7 million Syrians. Lebanon followed Turkey by 1.5 million Syrian immigrants. Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan had relatively less number of the Syrian immigrants.
While analyzing and assessing the situation of the Syrian immigrants, both sides’ perspectives have to be taken into consideration. Considering that the Syrian immigrants did not start the war, and they were not trying to immigrate to the other countries before the civil war, no one can assume that this is a conscious immigration movement. In simple word, we can call the Syrian immigrants as forced immigrants. On the other side, the host countries’ people were friendlier at the beginning; however, the continuing immigration from Syria to the host countries have decreased the tolerance to the Syrian immigrants in the host countries.
The Syrian immigrants, firstly, had to run out of Syria, and they were placed in the refugee camps in the host countries. However, the rapidly increasing number immigrants have caused trouble to control the refugee camps, and many Syrian immigrants preferred moving to the urban and the rural centers. Many of the refugees in Turkey have tried to cross the Turkish border to reach the developed countries through Greece and Bulgaria. Consequently, the Syrian refugees have started receiving a reaction from the citizens of the host countries.
Syria has had a various people from the different religions, the different denominations, and the various cultural backgrounds. These people faced a new cultural and social situation or shock in the countries they have reached. The ones who immigrated to Turkey have had the language barrier also. Many of the Syrians have left all their wealth and belongings behind them and migrated; therefore, they have become poor in the other countries, and unemployed. Their economic status has determined their social status in the hosting countries, and they do not have the opportunity to live their cultures. Furthermore, the Syrian immigrants have faced some threats by the hosting countries’ people who do not go well with the Syrians because of the denominational or the religious issues.
On the other side, the host countries’ people’s trust to the Syrian immigrants is decreasing. The surveys indicate that the residents of the host countries do not want to host the Syrians in the long term. The social adaptation between the citizens and the immigrants could not be established because the immigration process has occurred in a short run of 5 years. The social disintegration seems to continue in the long term.
Regarding security, the terrorist groups are using the active immigration flows from Syria to the other countries to implement their bombings in the other countries and the other illegal activities. 4.2 million Syrians are living in the hosting countries, and the hosting countries could not keep their border controls safe and healthy to protect the peace inside their countries. On the other side, the lack of the social adaptation between the immigrants and the citizens is causing a mutual loss of trust. The lack of confidence is sometimes increasing the social tension between the sides. Taking the denominational, religious, and cultural differences into account, the social pressure might reach a relatively much higher level in the future. Also, the host countries have also some internal conflicts. For instance, in Turkey, the Kurdish groups and the Turkish army are in a war. Therefore, the approach to the Kurdish Syrians in Turkey is not always friendly. The vulnerable groups in the Syrian immigrant, especially immigrant women, are facing relatively more challenging situations. Consequently, the vast immigration from Syria to the hosting countries might create more social and cultural challenges.
Another important aspect of the immigration is an economic aspect. The immigrants have increased the effective demand in the hosting countries, and depending on the increasing demand, some important products' prices have increased. On the other side, the financial support provided for the Syrian immigrants are not provided equally to some poor citizens or poor social groups in the hosting countries. For instance, in Turkey, there are almost 5 million Roma people, and many of them are trying to survive on the benefits from the government. The increasing number of the Syrian refugees has changed the resources share for the poor people, and the Roma population are receiving relatively less at the moment. Finally, the increasing number of Syrians has increased the competition in the labor and the entrepreneurship markets. The immigrant Syrians is accepting lower wages than the citizens' average salaries. Therefore, the demand for the labor with the relatively lower cost increasing, and the citizens are losing their jobs to the Syrians. The rising number of Syrians has also influenced the markets in the hosting countries. In the metropolitan cities of the hosting countries, the demand for the workers who can speak Arabic is increasing.
The political aspect is another important one in the immigration story. The hosting countries have political structures not well-structured. For instance, Turkey has a religious party, AKP, on the power. There is a large opponent group in Turkey. The newcomers, Syrians, are favoring AKP, and that makes AKP more powerful in Turkey in the future. This situation might create relatively radical groups among the opponent people in Turkey. This situation is true for all the hosting countries. The immigration will change or have already changed the political mathematics in these countries.
Consequently, no one can guess when the civil and religious war will end in Syria; however, we are sure that the war and the immigration will have permanent influences on the Middle Eastern countries including Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Jordan. The Arabic Spring movements could not develop the democracy in these countries. The chaos occurred following the Arabic Spring movements in the Middle Eastern countries will reshape the social, political, religious, cultural, and even geographical map of the Middle East. If the diplomatic problems between Turkey and the European Union could not be solved in the short term, the chaos might spread to the European countries starting from Greece and Bulgaria to the all developed countries in Europe through widening movement of the immigration.