Refugee issue continues to gain mainstream attention due to the number of people it affects. Latest figures presented by United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (hereinafter – UNHCR) indicate more than 22 million refugees. Granted, as any advocacy group, UNHCR may tend to inflate its numbers, however, even 20 million refugees is more than population of Florida or entire countries, such as Romania and the Netherlands. The scale of the issue undermines the efforts of separate governments to tackle this issue, making it obsolete. Thus, this should be addressed on international level by combining efforts of all the countries, not only the ones affected the most. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the existent solutions to combatting this issue and formulate the most practical one. Granted, there may be no solution that may satisfy all the parties: both …show more content…
This paper argues that refugee crisis should be tackled by developing utilitarian ethical perspective, redefining legal concepts, reforming establishing institutions and implementing specific refugee programs. Background Arguably the first major refugee crisis occurred as a result of the World War II. First of all, hundreds of thousands Jews sought secure land where they can resettle. Secondly, millions of Germans fled fearing persecution as a result of the war. Thirdly, many people left their homes in the wake of established Communist regimes in their countries. International community responded with Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which proclaimed in Article 1 that "everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution". It was succeeded by the Geneva Convention on refugees (1951), outlining who may be deemed a “refugee”. Refugee should have the following distinct characteristics: this person left the country of origin, is unable or