Misfortune has once again hit Afghan migrants as around 1,200 Afghan and Syrian asylum seekers have been arrested by Greece in the past few days. Greece official announced a couple of days earlier that these asylum seekers were arrested as they were attempting to reach other European nations through Greece.
There are thousands of Afghan migrants who have left Afghanistan and have moved to other countries so as to find better lives and there are many who are in the process of doing the same. Greece has been one of the countries that receive thousands of Afghan refugees every year. According to a calculation about 50,000 migrants enter Greece illegitimately every year. There are many who use Greece as a doorway to Europe and eventually move to other European countries.
The issue of refugees is an international problem and requires proper attention from international community. The refugees who leave their homelands in hunt of better lives, most of the times undergo different sorts of sufferings before they reach a place that is safe for them. Most of them are not even fortunate enough to reach to the destination they set for and end up in detention center, refugee camps and even death. Frequently, they fall victim to the ill intentions of human-smugglers, who discriminate them as much as they can. Moreover, they have to endure severe kind of psychological depression and stress as they go through the worst kind of experiences.
The migrants and asylum seekers are mostly from the third world countries that suffer from wars, conflicts and political and economic crunch. Finding no assurance of secure life, they move towards the developed countries of the world in search of contentment and bliss but, regrettably, there are many who do not earn the blessed end. Afghanistan is one of the most dominant countries in this regard. Decades of wars and terrorism along with droughts and deficiency of basic requirements have forced millions of people to leave their country. Although there has been notable decrease in this regard, millions of Afghan refugees are still living their lives in neighboring countries (like Pakistan and Iran), European countries, Australia and America; whereas, there are thousand others who are still in different kinds of camps and detention centers around the world waiting for some sort of sympathy and attention. The circumstances faced by these refugees are not always hospitable and they have to bear the brunt of different sorts of reactions. Though in some countries they are welcomed affectionately, in others they are treated in a very harsh manner.
Greece has been one of the major countries that have been experiencing the inflow of migrants. In deed there are thousands of refugees that have traveled from different parts of the world in search of secure life and better living criterions. Greece, though have not been very much strict to refugees, has now to consider the situation seriously as the international economic depression hit the country very hard and it is suffering from lack of financial resources to support its own people. Consequently, the migrants are going to face serious problems in the near future.
Most of them have to be sent back to their countries, which would generate problems for them in a sense that they have to resume their lives from the very start as they had left everything once they had set for the journey. Though there are many who do not opt to settle in Greece and move to other European countries, the influence of large number of refugees is really very serious and has to be dealt with seriously.
As the movement of the refugees is a great problem for the refugees and the countries from where they move, in the same way it is problem for the countries to which they move. It is not always an easy task to control the flow of refugees by any government. It has to keep in deliberation its own people and policies and at the same time has to respect the international policies and regulations regarding the rights of the refugees. Besides, it has to adjust for the compensation of the refugees who move in, and have to deal with the issues like multiculturalism, terrorism and racism, suitably.
Though, the problems are great in this regard, the developed nations of the world do have the potential to absorb the shocks of refugee influx. Most of the European countries, America, Canada and Australia in this connection have been playing dominant role in compensating for the refugees and asylum seekers from different countries of the world. On the other hand United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has been making sure that the rights of the refugees are secured appropriately. Though the situation has not turned to be perfect, there have been developments made in this regard.
However, there are still very serious problems that the migrants face. The political and social changes is different countries of the world also have influences on them and decide their future. There are many who are still in different sorts of camps and detention centers, away from their loved ones and suffering inhumane treatment but the political decision makers, instead of treating them as an international problem, try to use their issue for political purposes.
Definitely there are political and diplomatic concerns for all the governments of the world to consider, but the issue of migrants is more important than such concerns, as it involves the precious human lives and the lives of human beings stand more sacred than any other concern, belief or ideology.