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How do you predict that the group will change?

There are currently two million Sudanese migrants living in Egypt and tens of thousands of them are refugees. The refugees and the migrants have succeeded in relocating themselves in the cities where they can find the jobs. Despite racial discrimination and very low wage, the Sudanese migrants' lifestyle in Egypt is much better than their lifestyle in Sudan. Also, there is no threat of persecution due to their race and religion. Thus, their movement has ended up in a permanent change in their residence that they do not want to go back to Sudan, where poverty is prevalent.

Unless the military conflict in Sudan is solved and the economy alleviates by far, it is very unlikely that the Sudanese refugees will go back to Sudan. Thus, the current trend of Sudanese migration would continue as long as Sudan's instability continues. Sudanese refugees are always willing to be relocated to even more developed countries such as Israel or United States. Thus, increasing number of refugees in Egypt would be more dispersed to the more developed countries.

The current maltreatment of Sudanese refugees in Egypt should be solved by the involvement of international NGO's and the government policies. However, the Egyptian government is only concerned in protecting the rights of Egyptian national as shown in its labor law. Also, the prevalent racism and police violent threat the human rights of Sudanese refugees.

My prediction is that the current refugees would not go back to Sudan due to ongoing military conflict and poverty. Also, the increasing number of people would use Egypt only as a transit point, since Egypt shares its border with Israel and there is a UNHCR office in Cairo in which they can apply for their refugee status. Desoute racial discrimination and human rights violation of the Sudanese refugees, lots of Sudanese refugees would continue coming to Egypt due to its pull factors (economic opportunities, "transit" opportunities, escape from threat, geographic advantage) are still attractive even after considering the racial discrimination and the human rights violation.