Effects

They are a variety of effects on the host country's economy by the refugees, also social effects and the refugees living in camps also suffer emotionally and physically. Here are just some effects.

            Economic effects on the host country:

      Refugees compete with the local population for scarce resources, over time it leads to more substantial demands

      Can alter flow of goods and services within society

      Host countries divert resources to keep refugees alive

      Host government expects that the international community will compensate in costs for providing an asylum for refugees

      An economic stimulus can be generated from the presence of refugees; this can lead to the development of the host region. (Stimulus takes place through the local purchase of food, shelter materials etc.

      Presence of refugees can attract development agencies to the host area

Social effects:

      

       If refugees are from the same cultural background there is sympathy for their situation, for example 400,000 refugees have been housed by the locals in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

     
Different ethnicity can cause hostility, or even failures of communication can cause barriers

            
Refugees can add to security problems, (crime rates, theft, and murder etc.)        

     
 Refugees can bring benefits to the host area, for example refugees introduced swamp land rice in Guinea, and refugees in Nepal have introduced new techniques of cultivating cardamom, an important cash crop in the south east of the country.

                 

            Refugees suffer to, here are some emotional and physical effects.

      Poverty can affect both physical and mental health; poverty can affect the development and maintenance of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric problems.

      Children can be hurt emotionally, they can be separated from their families during fighting, or whatever is going on while they are refugees

      Children who have lost their parents are in the worst situation within the refugee camp, there not allowed to go to school because they have to do chores for the people they were adopted by, clothes are just falling off them and they are all alone

      Many children can become orphans during fighting, etc. This can lead to depression and anxiety

      Separated children often live in child-headed households

      Their lives are very unorganized, they don’t know what they are going to do, aid workers help them to restructure their lives

      While children are in their camps doing chores, they can get attacked by outsiders, e.g. when collecting firewood.

      Adolescents within refugee camps are vulnerable to recruitment by an armed group, (corrupt government, and paramilitary groups etc.).

           

               These are places in the world with the highest refugee concentrations,

            these would be the areas most effected
        Darker colour means more refugees

     

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