A 21st-Century Migrant’s Checklist

SOCI 221 Marika Katanuma

The New York Times

Global Refugee

Worst Refugee Crisis11 million people were uprooted by violence in 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/09/world/migrants-global-refugee-crisis-mediterranean-ukraine-syria-rohingya-malaysia-iraq.html

Conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan

http://www.ecbs-eerc.org/2009/travel.php

https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0:Serbia_on_the_globe_%28claimed%29_%28Europe_centered%29.svg

“BELGRADE, Serbia — The tens of thousands of migrants who have flooded into the Balkans in recent weeks need food, water and shelter, just like the millions displaced by war the world over. But there is also one other thing they swear they cannot live without:

by The New York Times

a smartphone charging station.”

21st-century version of a refugee crisis

● food● water● shelter

● Technology = Smartphone

Smartphone mapsGlobal positioning apps

Social media

WhatsApp

- to find the way

- to post real-time updates

- to get information

- to keep in touch with friends and families

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?ref=world

“Every time I go to a new country, I buy a SIM card and activate the Internet and download the map to locate myself.”

Osama Aljasem, a rafuge from Syria in Belgrade

Change…?

Changing Business Trafficking “Smuggle yourself to Europe without a trafficker.”

Changing the assistance of international aid agencies

33,000 SIM cards to Syrian refugees.

85,704 solar lanterns

“For the U.N.H.C.R., there is a shift in understanding of what assistance provision actually is,” said Christopher Earney from the refugee agency’s innovation office in Geneva.

Christopher Earney from the refugee agency’s innovation office in Geneva.

How it connects to the class?

Global Networking

IGOsIntergovernmental organization

The Main News Source :

The New York Times, A 21st-Century Migrant’s Checklist: Water, Shelter, Smartphone, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/a-21st-century-migrants-checklist-water-shelter-smartphone.html?ref=world

The other sources:

- The whole Syria will pass through Serbia”: Belgrade to face five million refugees, http://inserbia.info/today/2015/08/the-whole-syria-will-pass-through-serbia-belgrade-to-face-five-million-refugees/

- U.N. Predicts 3,000 Migrants a Day Will Pass Through Balkans, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/world/europe/migrant-crisis-europe-un.html

- The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/09/world/migrants-global-refugee-crisis-mediterranean-ukraine-syria-rohingya-malaysia-iraq.html

- World Refugee Day: Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time in post-World War II era, http://www.unhcr.org/53a155bc6.html

- Global Refugee Trends 2013 - June 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClL1mQv4vm8&feature=youtu.be

- WPR, http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/serbia-population/- Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia