A Review of the Effects of Syrian Refugees Crisis on Lebanon - TI Journals

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Abstract: Lebanon has entered its fifth year as a country holding the largest number of Syrian refugees in the region fleeing the war in Syria. All regions and cities in Lebanon with a high concentration of Syrian refugees share a similar extended marginality, underdevelopment, and have a weak infrastructure. Syrian refugees enjoy different levels of political and legal conditions, freedom of mobility, access to goods and services, access to the labor market all across their geographical settlements within Lebanon. The Syrian refugee crisis has now become a threat to the stability of Lebanon. This paper shows the shifting developments of the refugee crisis in Lebanon since the beginning of the war in Syria. It analyses, researches, explains, and evaluates the result of the Syrian Refugees on the economy, health, education, environment, and transportation sector resulting in overcrowding, competition for jobs and businesses, threat to security and safety through the implementation of a mixed method approach using both primary and secondary data. The main issue is to evaluate to what extend the Syrian refugees crisis impacted Lebanon. A survey was conducted in all regions of Lebanon; the respondents are from different age group, different background, different income and different educational level. The data was analyzed using SPSS. The aim of this research is to disclose the mismanagement of the crisis that shape the State of Lebanons policy towards it. The work deployed by NGOs and UNHCR agencies in Lebanon could not replace Lebanese government responsibilities and tasks. Funds, rules and legislations to Lebanese governments are becoming critical if the countrys stability is to be guaranteed. There is more need than ever to take actions assuming the responsibilities of maintaining and protecting Lebanon from a catastrophic situation. In its conclusion this paper proposes guidelines to regulate and manage the presence of the Syrian refugees along with a needed law for migrant protecting both the refugees and the citizens of Lebanon.