by: Teong Kim Chay
The article ‘ Social and Economic Impact of Large Refugee Populations on Host Developing Countries’ was written by Executive Committee of High Commissioner’s Programme Standing Committee under United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This article was written on 6 January 1997. UNHCR is a committee that was established on 14 December 1950 with the objectives to protect and support refugees worldwide. UNHCR ensures the safety of refugees and also participate in problem solving that arises from this issue.
The article ‘ Social and Economic Impact of Large Refugee Populations on Host Developing Countries’ was written by Executive Committee of High Commissioner’s Programme Standing Committee under United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This article was written on 6 January 1997. UNHCR is a committee that was established on 14 December 1950 with the objectives to protect and support refugees worldwide. UNHCR ensures the safety of refugees and also participate in problem solving that arises from this issue.
The purpose of this article is to
inform readers regarding the impacts of influx of refugees on environment of
host countries. The increase of number of refugees leads to the massive demand
for natural resources and infrastructure in the host country. This leads to
long term problem as some resources are not renewable. For instance in
paragraph 8, line 4, ‘.
Estimates of rural wood consumption in Somalia…’ has shown the extreme massive
demand of refugees on wood supplies in host country. The host country has to
open up more forests to fulfil the request in market.
The second purpose of this article is to inform readers the
benefit of refugees in host country. The influx of refugees also allows the host
country to learn additional skills that is initially from the refugees’
country. For examples, from paragraph 10, line 5, ‘refugees have introduced
swamp land rice in Guinea… ’ has shown the benefits of influx of refugees.
The author uses a formal tone to inform the
readers on the impacts of refugees on the host countries. From the words ‘From the moment of arrival…’ in
paragraph 3, the article has shown
the tone used by author is formal.
The author is bias when this
article is produced. The author focused more on the negative sides brought by
refugees rather than the benefits. It is true that the author did touch on the
benefits of influx of refugees, however, from paragraph 1, ‘…does have some positive effects on
the host society, this hardly compensates for the negative consequences…’ has
shown the bias of authors on refugees.
The strength of this article is from the examples given by the
author. The author used a lot of good examples to support most of his points in
this article. These examples have included with good data and are able to be
related to real life easily by readers as they read this article. For instance,
from paragraph 1, ‘…there were some 700,000 refugees among a local population
of 186,000.’ has shown the accuracy of the examples given.
In conclusion, the article informed readers on issues that are
raised in host country during the influx of refugees. This article is well
constructed with simple sentences for readers to understand it easily. The
article is not confusing and it pint pointed all the points directly.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the critique, I find that the writer did a good job on summarizing and stating the social and economical impacts caused by influx of refugee. He is able to convey the message and his idea by using simple English vocabulary.Hence, the readers can understand the context easily and clearly. He can analyse the article well from different perspectives through stating the general purpose and biasness indicated by the author. He managed to express the positive impacts and negative impacts brought by migration of refugees. I can conclude that the written critique is straightforward and worth to read.
ReplyDeleteFrom the critique that was done by Wilson Teong Chim Chay, I find that it was quite impressive. He managed to bring out two purpose if the article which was to inform readers about the impacts of refugees and also to convey the benefits of refugees. He touched the point that, there is two side story for this article thus encouraging the people to really undertsand the article and what it is trying convey. A very good job. He also did a very good job on using examples for every point that he touched. Language use was exellent,simple and easy to understand for many levels of people. So to me, he did a splendid job on the critique.
ReplyDeleteFrom the critique that was done by Wilson Teong Chim Chay, I find that it was quite impressive. He managed to bring out two purpose if the article which was to inform readers about the impacts of refugees and also to convey the benefits of refugees. He touched the point that, there is two side story for this article thus encouraging the people to really undertsand the article and what it is trying convey. A very good job. He also did a very good job on using examples for every point that he touched. Language use was exellent,simple and easy to understand for many levels of people. So to me, he did a splendid job on the critique.
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