History Politics

Personality Assessment Albanian refugees from Kosovo' This paper is a research assignment regarding all aspects facing Albanians from Kosovo. Over the past, there have been various, significantly dramatic instances during which individuals and whole communities have migrated from their homelands as a result of a particularly crucial issue or predicament, relocating themselves within foreign regions and countries.

The degree of immigrants is usually controllable buy the concerned authorities of the country which is being inundated by the immigrants, this, however, being a course of action that is not, usually, as effective as would be desired, as a result of the rate of immigration usually being so significant that by the time the authorities are even aware of the threat posed, the country is already heavily prevalent with immigrants from a particular country.

A significant case of this sort of immigration has been that the Albanians of Kosovo were forced to partake in as a result of there being a dramatic rise in the degree of ethnic animosity and violence in the region, threatening the very existence of minorities, Albanians as well as others. Albanians from Kosovo; NATO intervention The situation that instigated this remarkably strong wave of Albanian from Kosovo to immigrate in such haste was a result of a string of massacres that began on the fifteenth of January 1999.

These massacres came about as the Yugoslav Army and police attacked on three villages, including Racak, Stimlje, and Pristina in Kosovo, killing 45 unarmed ethnic Albanian civilians. The reason for this string of attacks was that particular ethnic Albanian militants of a notorious militant movement going under the name of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the KLA, had killed four Serbian police officers during the recent past.

The most crucial aspect inherent to the situation was that a conflict had been carrying on between the two major masses in Kosovo for generations already; between Serbs, who believe Kosovo to be Yugoslav territory, and Albanians, mostly Muslims, who represent 90% of the population in Kosovo.' As a result of the drastic casualties that were becoming more frequent with the building up of the violence inherent to Kosovo, it soon became clear to the UN and NATO that they had to send in their forces before bad came to worse.

Thus, the NATO forces, in an effort to dissipate the extreme degree of bloodshed and sectarian violence, began bombing the Serbs so as to, according to themselves, prevent the violence from overflowing into the entire region. This bombing, however, lead to only worsen the circumstances, particularly in so much as bringing about, as an immediate result, a much higher death count than any that had yet been assessed.

This led President Clinton to state that the Yugoslavs had slaughtered tens of thousands' of the Albanian ethnicity, a statement that was later proven to be false, probably given in order to divert the blame for the casualties.

The immigration; reasons It was basically as a result of the NATO bombing and the immediately following phase of ethnic cleansing that was implemented by the KLA upon the provinces Serbian and Gypsy ethnicities that the degree of ethnic minorities form Kosovo, particularly Albanians, were forced to migrate to safer regions, Switzerland and Germany turning out to be the countries which were most frantically sought after.

Furthermore, the massacre that was unleashed in 1999 as a result of a desire for the revenge of the killing of the four Serbian police officials was a trial of violence during which the Yugoslav authorities didn't see any parameters to the wreaking of havoc and death upon the Albanian ethnicities.

That is to say that they, the attacking officials, conducted their grisly implementation of violence without the slightest regard for women or children, simply killing who so ever came within the range of their ammunition, this being clearly apparent when considered in light of the fact that they were given no chance to escape, and when they did try to escape they were just cut down in gunfire.' Reasons inherent to the choice of the refugees falling upon Switzerland One of the most apparent reasons inherent to the fact that a vast majority of the refugees resorted to Switzerland in order to see asylum is probably the liberalism prevalent in context to the laws of the county in context to refugees and individuals seeking asylum.

Section 3(1) of the Asylum law of Switzerland defines refugees as "persons who, in their country of nationality or country of former residence, are exposed to or have a well-founded fear of being exposed to serious prejudices for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." This liberalism is further enhanced in so much as the definition ascribed to the implication of the term serious prejudices; the definition having been broadened so as to include threats on life, physical integrity or barring of freedom, and also psychological pressure or torture.

What this liberalism works out to is that individuals fulfilling the criteria of being refugees are granted a renewable resident visa that is valid for up to a year, a refusal of renewal being a rare case that is only as a result of a number of rare circumstances. Moreover, after a period of five years, individuals fulfilling the same criteria are granted a settlement visa or permit, one that is renewable in addition to having a validity period constituting of ten years.

Another significantly beneficial aspect of the refugee or asylum-concerned aspects inherent to Switzerland's policy is that Swiss citizens and recognized refugees are entitled to the same benefits. Furthermore, they are also helped out in terms of their financial, academic, and domestic predicaments and issues that are highly possible to become inherent to their existence as a result of relocating within an absolutely foreign country.

The best thing about the Swiss policy in regard to refugees is that they're virtually no degree of discrimination in accordance to the manner, in which the refugees are treated in all aspects, this being apparent in light of the fact that once they cross the age of 16, all refugees are given a sum of CHF 3,250 [EUR 2,101] in order to attend language courses provided by private organizations.' Furthermore, there are no restrictions implemented upon the refugees in terms of work, education, social welfare and citizenship too, the criteria for refugees being virtually the same as the one applying to citizens; A refugee who has been resident in Switzerland for at least 12 years may apply for Swiss citizenship.

Conclusion Thus speaking, taking into consideration all that has been said in context to the Albanians from Kosovo who were coerced into migration as a result of the dramatically.