{"id":4742,"date":"2021-11-08T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:41:16","slug":"central-asia-refuses-to-accept-afghan-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2021\/11\/08\/central-asia-refuses-to-accept-afghan-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Asia Refuses to Accept Afghan Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

link to article: https:\/\/iwpr.net\/global-voices\/central-asia-refuses-accept-afghan-refugees<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the countries in Central Asia, with the exception of Tajikistan, have come out and said that they will not be accepting many Afghan refugees. After the US pulled out of Afghanistan, they asked the surrounding countries in Central Asia to provide a temporary asylum for the refugees, while Russian president Valdimer Putin disagrees believing that the Afghans should not be allowed into the area of Central Asia without valid visas. Analysts said that they believe countries such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are being more mindful when it comes to the refugee issue, not wanting to risk their potential relationships with the Taliban in the future. Meanwhile, Tajikistan has been preparing to accept up to 100,000 refugees from the country despite the fact that Tajik analyst Fakhriddin Holbek said that it was unlikely for that many people to seek refuge in Tajikistan due to the fact \u201cthe areas bordering our countries are occupied by the Taliban, and no one can approach the border\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that there is no right or wrong in this situation. Although some people may be upset at the fact that countries such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan should be helping take in refugees, you have to look at it through the eyes of those countries. Even though they may have wanted to help, they have to do what will be best for them, and making the Taliban mad wouldn\u2019t be. The entire region is a \u2018tinderbox\u2019 now that the Taliban has taken control and is in power in Afghanistan.  Those seeking refugee status in other countries are fleeing to escape the Taliban.  Meanwhile, many of the surrounding countries are in a position of having to coexist with the Taliban and do not want to upset their new and now powerful Afghan neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can be tied back to class by using a level of analysis to figure out why the countries Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan may have acted the way they did.  On a Regional level, the Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan governments are trying to preserve the idea of having future relations with the Taliban, so therefore they didn\u2019t want the issues with the refugees cloud their judgments. On a Domestic level, the Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan governments did not believe that helping the Afghan refugees was beneficial for them so they decided not to let them seek protection in their countries. On an individual level, Vladimir Putin\u2019s statements may have had a greater impact on these countries than the US statements and pleas did, so the Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan leaders chose to listen to their Russian allies rather than the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

link to article: https:\/\/iwpr.net\/global-voices\/central-asia-refuses-accept-afghan-refugees After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the countries in Central Asia, with the exception of Tajikistan, have come out and said that they will not be accepting many Afghan refugees. After the US pulled out of Afghanistan, they asked the surrounding countries in Central Asia to provide a temporary asylum for the refugees, while Russian president… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}