refugees mediteranean

Question 1

basic knowledge

Answer 1

-2015 over 1 mil migrants left north africa middle eaast to europe
340,00 more in 2016
-most pay smugglers
-many aim to claim asylum when they arrive
-2015 73% eu immigrants claim they came for work and hlaf of migrants came from syria
-60% eu nationals in uk from eastern europe

-april 2014 700 died when boat capsized near italy
-160,000 had to be resscueda t sea 2016

Question 2

eu aslyum applications

Answer 2

• drastic decrease in applications since 2017 likely due to closure of balkan route and refugee deal with turkey
  -germany received almost 1/3 of 2017 asylum applicants and only 48% accepted

eu turkey deal
-2016 = aims to stop irregular migration from turkey to eu
-increase living conditions of refugees at turkey borders
-6bil in eu humanitarian funding kick started wide range of programmes addressing refugee needs
-deaths and arrivals from human traficking into greece decreased
-1/2 syrian refugees children not in school

Question 3

source of uk migrants

Answer 3

• commonwealth
  -labour shortages in 40’s in factories and transport and new NHS so jobs advertised overseas

-eu as migration increased after maastricht agreemnt

Question 4

sudan

Answer 4

• since independcen 1955 = lacked internal cohesion partly due to its size
  -civil wars between ethnic and culutral groups - onyl 11 years of peace

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Question 5

darfur sudan

Answer 5

• ongoing civil war in darfur region
• in 2003 rebel groups attacked gov targets but janjaweed fought back
  -air radis on rebel groups by gov
  -sudanese polcie deployed but little faith
  -gov denied backing jan but gave them money

causes of conflict:

-rebeles wanted shares of oil revenue
-anger in both groups
-people killed randomly
-africans wanted greater rep
-jan wanted bet farming land that was owned my black africans

impacts:

-300,000 dead and 3mil displaced
-lack of food, water and meds
-less farmers and poor infrastrucutrre so hard to deploy troops from UN
-water supply deliberately contaminated

Question 6

catalonia

Answer 6

92% voted to leave spain but spanish gov refused and declaed it unconstitutional

Question 7

how globalalistaion affected SA

Answer 7

-opened to global amrkets meant taking onboards SAPs and accepting higher elvels of FDI
-exports grown and imports and consumer goods
-tourism helped econ
-income inequalities between ethinicities

Question 8

how globalalistaion affected brazil

Answer 8

-invested heavily in shwpeice events
-gov corrupt

Question 9

syria failed state

Answer 9

-civil war started in 2011
-500,000 dead and millions dispalced
-syrias infrastrutucte bad

civil war:
-caused by disconentn by Baathist regime = protests
-since 2011, econ ran by entrepenuers closely assocaited with ruling fam
-privatisation to gov supporters
- agricutlutre sector negelcted

failed state as lack of democaracy, unemployment, ciorrupton, turks cant use language in schools or work = less identity
-many kids now say they from regions not syria
-ethnically divided as sunni arabs 65% kurds9% alawis 12%