Migrants and Refugees Reading Answers

Migrants and Refugees

It is found that one in every 50 human beings are migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrants living in a foreign country. The International Organisation for Migration reported that 150 million people live temporarily or permanently outside their country. About 80-97 million people are estimated to be migrant workers with their families. Another 12 million people are refugees living outside of their countries of origin. 

Migration occurs because of rapid increase of ethnic and racial diversity of societies. Increasing migration indicates that the states are becoming more multi ethnic and confronting the challenge of accommodating different cultures and people. We must ensure that mutual respect exists in different cultures and different people.It is necessary to mediate relations across differences. Some of the nation states exclude ethnic diversity in order to preserve their identity. 

Although, government tries to adjust with the new realities multi ethnic societies, discrimination and violence are happening against migrants and refugees. It becomes difficult to figure out whether level of sexual abuse is increased or not because of the lack of systematic documentation and proper research. But, anecdotal evidence is there to assure the violations of the human rights of the migrants and refugees. Racial discrimination and xenophobia also found to be happening. 

The term Racism and Xenophobia are used interchangeably. But, both are essentially different. Racism is defined as an ideological construct assigned a power position to a certain race or ethnic group based on the physical and cultural attributes as well as economical wealth and hierarchical relationships. And Xenophobia describes fear and hatred against an outsiders or foreign people. By these definitions, we can understand that racism is more broader than Xenophobia.

Questions 1 - 4

The reading passage has four paragraphs, A-D.

Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number, i-vii, as your answer to each question.

List of Headings

i. Statistics of Migrants and Refugees
ii. Internal Migrants
iii. Violence against Migrants
iv. Mortality rate of Refugees
v. Multi Ethnicity and Migration. 
vi. Minority groups disturbs the world
vii. Definitions of Racism and Xenophobia

Paragraph A
Paragraph B
Paragraph C
Paragraph D

1. Answer: Paragraph A = i 
Explanation: It is found that one in every 50 human beings are migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrants living in a foreign country.

The whole Paragraph A describes statistics on migrants and refugees. 

2. Answer: Paragraph B = v 
Explanation: Increasing migration indicates that the states are becoming more multi ethnic and confronting the challenge of accommodating different cultures and people. 

3. Answer: Paragraph C = iii
Explanation:  But, anecdotal evidence is there to assure the violations of the human rights of the migrants and refugees. 

4. Answer: Paragraph D = vii 
Explanation: Racism is defined as an ideological construct assigned a power position to a certain race or ethnic group based on the physical and cultural attributes as well as economical wealth and hierarchical relationships. And Xenophobia describes fear and hatred against an outsiders or foreign people.