Question:
Give a brief discussion on health and social care.
Answer:
a) Introduction
- Objective of this task is to find out different refugee welfare systems in different countries (refugee welfare system, cited in Arnot et al. 2013)
- How countries like UK, US and Canada provides support to the refugees
- The differences and similarities of refugee welfare systems in UK, US and Canada
b) The comparative method
- Comparative is used to compare two or more aspects using feature-to-feature comparison method (comparative method, cited in Felsenstein 2012).
- Feature-to-feature comparison method will be used to compare refugee welfare systems in the UK, U.S.A and Canada.
c) Similarities and differences
- In UK, the Government provides asylum support to the refugees.
- The Government helps them with housing, cash support, and extra money support for mothers, young children, and maternity payments (refugee welfare system, cited in Stewart and Mulvey 2014).
- Caseworker volunteers, support volunteers and interpreter volunteers in different states are responsible for providing extra support to the refugees.
- On the other hand, in the USA, mostly government is responsible for providing refugee welfare systems
- Cash and medical assistance, refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance and immigration benefits are provided by the U.S.A government (refugee welfare system cited in Beaman 2012).
- Private companies such as Private Resettlement Agency also assist the refugees to receive welfare.
- In Canada, only the Government looks after the refugee welfare systems (refugee welfare system cited in Olsen 2016).
- Canadian Government provides health care, financial assistance and settlement assistance to the refugees.
d) Reason for similarities and differences
- UK and the USA follow almost same Governmental structure.
- They handle refugees from almost same countries such a Syria.
- Both of these countries mostly allow refugees of war-affected countries thereof; their welfare systems related to refugees are same.
e) Conclusion
- In the end, it can be concluded that UK and U.S.A have the similar refugee welfare system (refugee welfare system cited in Wunder and Riphahn 2014).
- However, Canada belongs to a different culture and backgrounds, therefore, their refugee systems different.
Reflective report
- I followed the instructions provide by the teacher and used the structure provided by him.
- I chose two countries U.S.A and Canada with UK which was the instruction of my teacher to compare their refugee welfare systems.
References
Arnot, M., Pinson, H. and Candappa, M., 2013. The educational rights of asylum-seeking and refugee children within the neo-liberal state and inclusive schools in the UK. In Human Rights in the Field of Comparative Education (pp. 23-29). SensePublishers.
Beaman, L.A., 2012. Social networks and the dynamics of labour market outcomes: Evidence from refugees resettled in the US. The Review of Economic Studies, 79(1), pp.128-161.
Felsenstein, J., 2012. A comparative method for both discrete and continuous characters using the threshold model. The American Naturalist,179(2), pp.145-156.
Olsen, C., El-Bialy, R., Mckelvie, M., Rauman, P. and Brunger, F., 2016. “Other” Troubles: Deconstructing Perceptions and Changing Responses to Refugees in Canada. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(1), pp.58-66.
Stewart, E. and Mulvey, G., 2014. Seeking safety beyond refuge: the impact of immigration and citizenship policy upon refugees in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(7), pp.1023-1039.
Wunder, C. and Riphahn, R.T., 2014. The dynamics of welfare entry and exit amongst natives and immigrants. Oxford Economic Papers, 66(2), pp.580-604.
