Immigration Synthesis Essay

It should be noted that direct comparision between these immigrants and the native population is impossible, mostly due to the different socio-political factors surrounding each population. That is why the study compared different demographics between immigrants and refugees from the same origin. There were five areas of origin for the majority of these refugees: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the Middle East, Somalia, and former Yugoslavia. Another factor to keep in mind are the inherent biases that may be in place when diagnosing mental health cross-culturally. For instance, having a level of fear towards a parent figure may be different from culture to culture, so when these refugees move to a different culture, something that was a norm now becomes a strange trait. This is the main reason why it is difficult to compare this
Germany, another European country who has taken in over one million immigrants in the recent surge, had enacted a policy to help prevent abuse of the generous humanitarian aid to refugees. (Keep in mind, as mentioned earlier, that many of these immigrants are in fact 'economic migrants). To do so, medical care, other than those of immediate emergencies, has been restricted to immigrants until after they had been completely cleared by the system, a process which can take over half a year. This system was put in place, guided by the belief that incidental healthcare for a larger mass of immigrants would be more expensive than emergency care alone. At first glance, this may seem to be the case, but a meta-analysis performed by Kayvan Bozorgmher and Oliver Razum on healthcare expenditures for immigrants and refugees showed that this is not the case. In what may seem counterintutive, allowing pre-naturalized refugees access to full healthcare at the cost of the State appears to be less expensive