Child soldiers Somalia Social Push factors Pull factors

Child soldiers Somalia

Social • Push factors • Pull factors • Barriers • culture

Push factors • Famine Most of the displaced people in Mogadishu , Somalia live in camps and they don’t have find food supplies , water sanitation or medical services. People in Somalia are desperately trying to find food and water supplies. So this stuff makes people want to abandon their country and want to find a better and more developed country and a country that is better for themselves and their kids.

Push factors • Piracy is an important push factor of Somalia because the U. S. S Anzio received a report that a merchant vessel had been attacked and fired upon the pirates in the gulf of Eden , according to a statement the attack was unsuccessful. There has been a lot more reports , which if we think about it , it means the country is not safe. This is a push factor because people are not safe.

Push factors • Natural disasters • On November 10 , 2013 the north eastern part of Somalia was hit by a tropical cyclone. The cyclone and the subsequent flash floods caused massive destruction resulting in the deaths of 162 people , decimation of approximately 1 million livestock and destruction of over 1000 houses.

Push factors • Political violence's There has been a history of political violence’s in Somalia. There has been political violence’s in Somalia between 1950 -1980 On February 2012 , Kenya and Somalia forced al -Shabab militants out of town displacing around 7500 people in process.

Push factors • Safe places for people to go I recommend Kenya because according to my research there is not a safe city in Somalia and the Somalia's neighbor countries are having the same condition. Kenya is the safest place that Somalian can go to. Every month thousands of peoples come from another country to Kenya is also Somalia's neighbor country.

Push factors • Poor living conditions The poor people don’t have food , water , clothes and money. They cant get cured because they don’t have the money to pay for the medications. They don’t have the food to eat. They don’t have a clothes to wear and without all this they die.

Push factors • Connections Over the last decade alone , armed conflict has claimed the lives of over 2 million children. 6 million have been wounded or displaced. 1 million became orphans. Similarly with natural disasters, the first ones to suffer from a lack of sanitation , infrastructure and order after catastrophe are the children's. Outbreaks of disease following natural disasters hit children the hardest. Children get more hurt.

Pull factors ( USA ) • Economic incentives supplies the biggest pull factors for migrants. People moving to developed countries will often find the same work they have been doing at home is rewarded abroad with higher wages. They also will find greater safety net of welfare benefits should they be unable to work. • Political religious freedom • America is a country where everyone with different races live in and people are free to dress up as they like. • Education America has a high standards of a education. 30 years ago America was the leader in quality of high school diplomas. Today , America has ranked 18 th out of industrialized countries.

Barriers • Somalia seems to not have political barriers. Government doesn’t stop people from leaving country and citizens don’t have to pay exit taxes. • There aren't physical barriers either that’s why 60% percent of people in Somalia flee home and country • 80000 thousand people while fleeing the country got caught in the shelters made of sticks, grass and card board. • Many people of Somalia continue to emigrate illegally , mainly because of famine. They pass through Ethiopia , Sudan and Libya towards Europe. Somalia is among the many where illegal immigration is so prevalent.

Culture • In Somalia's culture the family is deeply valued. As are family honor and loyalty. In Somalia nuclear families usually live together. Preferred gender roles are for men to work outside the home and women to care for children. One of the important things in Somalia is that families do not value education that much. To Somalian family and working is more important than education.

Economics • Manufacturing • Exports • Imports

Economics • Somalia manufacturing's are products such as pasta , mineral water , plastic bags , fabric hides and skins , detergent and soap , aluminum , foam mattresses and pillows , fishing boats and stone processing. This things have bad effect on economy because the country doesn’t have enough money to control all this so they have to get the help from other countries and it makes the country more poor because with all the money that the manufacturing companies make goes for to other countries and Somalia stays with nothing.

Economics • Somalia's export goods are things such as livestock , bananas , hides , fish , charcoal and scrap metal. Because of Somalia does not have a stable central government , They did not have a noteworthy trade. Somalia is not eligible for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, established in 2000, which enables under-developed African nations to enhance their trade and open their economies to the global market. However Somalia does have a free trade agreements with countries such as china , Kenya and Indonesia. On 2008 Somalia managed to earn revenues worth 300$ million from its exports. The exports were Live animals , Pearls, precious stones and metals , Meat and …

Economics • How does conflict affect businesses ? In the war time businesses goes bankruptcy and there would be no jobs for people. Some businesses close down and go open it in another country where there is not war. • How does conflict affect children ? During the conflicts there would be no businesses and without businesses there are no jobs , so children have to make money so they have to be child soldiers.

Political • Types of government • Laws • Health care • Education

Political • Government Somalia currently has no centrally functioning government and has a loosely organized legal system that is virtually ineffective. Somalia is attempting to form a government so that the country can once again stabilize their internal structure. President Abdulkassin Salat Hassan and Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah are attempting to use the Transitional National Government that has been established in Somalia as a way of bringing about unity within the entire country. If there is not a government certainly there is no law.

Political • Health care • Somalia is one of the poorest countries in the world and it has an extremely weak health system. The average life expectancy is just 51 years. • One in every 14 women to go into labour dies. • A third of all children under five are malnourished. • In some regions Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) affects almost 100% of women.

Political • Education services in Somalia are provided by a variety of stakeholders, including Community Education Committees, regional administrations, community-based organizations, educational umbrella groups and networks, NGOs and religious groups. Despite major improvements in overall school enrolment over the last eight years, only 710, 860 children out of an estimated 1. 7 million (UNDP projection) of primary school age children – 42 per cent of children are in school. Of those at school, 36 per cent are girls. Education in Somalia is so expensive and a lot of money don’t have the money to pay for education. From the other side government doesn’t have the money to give the teachers and staff too. So children have to go and work.

Population

Population The value for Urban population in Somalia was 3, 608, 714 as of 2011. over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3, 608, 714 in 2011 and a minimum value of 488, 068 in 1960. The Population density of Somalia is 16. 4 (capita per square kilometer) with a global rank of 182. Somalia's Population density had a positive growth of 27. 1 (%) in the last 10 years from (2004 to 2014).

Connections • All of this stuff has a connection to child soldiers. Population , politics , social and economics. People in Somalia use children as soldiers without knowing what is actually happening to them. If the children don’t educate when they grow up and be a adult , no one will hire them because they only know how to shot a gun. If they don’t eat good food , and don’t have a good health care the people and children die. All this things like famine and piracy makes people and children hate their own country and make them risk for their life's to flee. So all this things are connected to each other and needs to stop from happening.