Running head: REFUGEES 1

The Effect of Hurricane Katrina

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Institutional Affiliation
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Katrina Refugees

The Katrina refugees were forced to evacuate beyond the south the United States by the

Hurricane Katrina. People from the Orleans were those partially displaced to other communities.

Katrina displaced more than one million people since the dust bowl of 1930,s, making it be

known as the biggest climate- driven migration. In Article 14 Grounded under the universal

declaration of human rights, United Nations conventions recognize the centerpiece of

international refugee protection. However, the UN removed the article amendment and

geographical-temporal limits. A refugee according to the new amendments was someone who

was unwilling to return to their origin of birth that at some point could have caused crime before

fleeing. The convention does not apply everybody after the amendment of article one. The

refugees protected by the principles of the United Nations, may not be granted the basic

minimum treatment of a refugee (Aristide .R. Zolberg, 1983). Such treatment involves having

rights to education, access to court, refugee travel document, and also right to work. Most

refugees who have the travel document are accepted as the former Nansen passport which is

devised by the commissioner for refugees. Under the convention and protocol article, refugees

such as the Katrina do not apply to the refugees displaced from Orland.

The formation of new states

The starting point of all the problems is when the flow of refugee came to be. Certain

conditions must be met in the country of origin or other countries as well. Although the validity

of the conditions was objectionable by a few members of the refugee policy community, the

assertion was a truism of the international migration. Therefore, people cannot leave their

countries for the purpose of going nowhere because there is a restrictive control on every entry of
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each state. The government policy that recruited potential receivers was available to effect such

control measure. By forming the receiving points, the refugees could not qualify to go to a

foreign country because of the U.N definitions. The U.N definitions stated that a refugee applied

to a foreign domination that is compelled to leave his habitual origin (Goodwin-Gill, 1983).

Although the refugee policy led to many uses as an instrument of foreign policy, suggestions for

the actual receiver should influence both direction and magnitude of the movements the refugees

made. Expressing the wish of the UN Declaration, the international co-operation has recognized

the global scope bringing in different acts for the refugees. In cases where the immigrant had

more than one nationality, the person deemed lacking protection from either of the countries.

Conclusion

Section A convection acted upon anyone who had lost his/her citizenship and later

reacquires it. Provided a person did not have an identity, he can return to his former residence.

With such movements, protection and assistance will cease by the relevant solutions adopted by

the United Nations. Every refugee in this matter had duties to the country he went. The

requirement of the refugee was that he should conform to the laws of that state and regulations

for the maintenance of the public order. As a conclusion, the Refugees will continue to be seen in

the third world because the political and social transformations are substantially involved in

these countries. In the context of the United Nations conventions, foreign interventions have

contributed for fostering the refugee problems.

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Zolberg, A. R. (1983). The Formation of New States as a Refugee-Generating Process. The

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