According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, a refugee is “someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group”. As we have seen from the news on a daily basis for the last few years, the refugee crisis has become a major challenge across the World with 66 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. In many cases, it is conflict that has been forcing people to flee their homes with over half of refuges coming from just three countries namely Syria, South Sudan and Afghanistan. Whilst less prosperous nations such as Turkey, Lebanon and Pakistan have taken the burden to host refugees, Western countries have been less enthusiastic to do so with the World’s six wealthiest countries only taking nine per cent of all refugees. The response in the UK has been particularly poor as compa...
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