WHY

One thing we can be certain of and that is that it will not be the Angela Merkal's of this world or any other big shot politician who will have to live in any of the numerous high rise slums that will be built to accommodate the migrants.....she or her ilk will never have to experience the atmosphere created in otherwise beautiful cities when tens of thousands of young men are corralled together in slums with very few of their dreams of a wonderful life in the West coming to fruition.....whatever chance there was of any type of acceptance or understanding of the migrants situation all this has totally evaporated in the light of recent events.....also, the numbers arriving now are only the tip of the iceberg because, as the majority are young men, they will naturally want to start families of their own and more than likely the will have a lot more children than the average European family.....this in itself will ensure that the Muslim faith will garner a firm stronghold in Europe .....anyway, too late now from what I can see.....and as regards re-patriation....that has to be the funniest thing I have ever heard!!... How long is that going to take?... It will never happen except possibly in very few numbers....jmo

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The above graphic was originally posted by Luay Al-Khatteeb, a researcher associated with the Brookings Institution.
The data source of all of these publications seems to be the UN High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) itself, which notes that over 4,000,000 refugees have been registered by the UNHCR in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. None of these refugees are registered in any of the Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia.
However, a look at Saudi Arabia's UNHCR page has a few curious footnotes that Western publications are conveniently omitting. The UNHCR counts refugees by noting only those "persons recognized as refugees under the 1951 UN Convention/1967 Protocol, the 1969 OAU Convention, in accordance with the UNHCR Statute, persons granted a complementary form of protection and those granted temporary protection." Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE are not parties to any of the UN protocols on refugees, and so through this technicality, they, along with most of their refugees, are excluded from many refugee counting mechanisms.
And as if the statement that Saudi Arabia has not taken any refugees were not preposterous enough, with the lack of a "Great Arabian Wall" of sorts, numerous commentators have conveniently overlooked the fact that the noted Gulf States are not included in maps of UNHCR progress reports like this one. One would think that such maps might raise the question, why aren't any of the Gulf States included in the graphics? And given their exclusion from many UN refugee graphics, one might also ask, is the absence of Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia really due to an astonishingly secure border? Or just a technicality that pundits have deceitfully misinterpreted?
Somehow, even in today's "enlightened" age where information on human rights is democratized and widely disseminated, the complete absence of Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia is more plausible than the idea of human misinterpretation of statistics. It's an inconvenient truth that needs to be addressed.
With Saudi Arabia's non-signatory status, the Syrians residing in Saudi Arabia are classified as "Arab brothers and sisters in distress" instead of refugees covered by UN treaties. According to Nabil Othman, the UNHCR regional representative to the Gulf region, there were 500,000 Syrian refugees in Saudi Arabia at the time of his statement. The government itself of Saudi Arabia has stated that it has, over the past five years since the start of the conflict hosted 2.5 million refugees.
Because the noted treaties establish treatment standards for refugees, some might raise concerns regarding the conditions that Saudi Arabia's refugees may be living in. However, Al-Arabiya, a news outlet based in the UAE, has noted that "Saudi authorities granted Syrians the right of residency and work, and provided them with education and health services for free." According to the Saudi government, over 100,000 children are currently receiving education in the country's schools. Saudi Arabia is not alone in attempts to provide education for the refugees, with Lebanon now providing schooling for another 100,000 child refugees.

From a legal standpoint the gulf nations aren't obligated to help refugees as they're among the few nations that never signed the 1951 refugee convention put forth by the UN. This convention not only defines refugees status but also dictate the rights and responsibilities towards them.

This Kuwaiti man has an interesting take on why syrien refugees don't fit into his country:

Great piece on generalization and bigotry when reporting and talking about Muslims: