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Overview of Refugees

fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country (UNHCR, 2001). The term well-founded has led to some difficu...

Interviewee 59 of Harvard's Refugee Project

if she agrees with other things. She is not completely against the model. At the same time, there are rather distressing stories c...

Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

Legal Refugee Status

people who were refugees and/or who were seeking asylum to leave an environment of persecution. On the other hand, refugees are ma...

Canada and Refugee Experiences

immigration rules in order to attract additional workers to contribute to the on-going economic boom in Canada for much of the 199...

Refugees in Australia

Convention of 1951, dealing specifically with refugees and rules for asylum. Those who flee their country of origin to escape pol...

The Ongoing Problem of Refugees in Iraq

likely to lead to a negative spiral, with current fragmentation and sectarian violence increasing the divisions within society, wh...

United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

The Non-Welcoming Canadian Nation

countries have to offer. This fear is one of the factors in the way immigration and national security are linked. Its fair to sa...

Laura C. Hammond's This Place Will Become Home

set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). Acco...

Mary Pipher's The Middle of Everywhere and Reflections of Refugees

formal education" (Pipher 334). As Pipher points out refugees (and other immigrants) are often doctors, professors, engineers, etc...

The Status of Refugee under International Law

This international law paper is written in two parts. The first section examines international conventions, primarily the 1951 Co...

Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

Impact of Climate Change

Refugees Currently, there are millions of people worldwide who are being displaced every year due to the impact of climate change...

Europe, Seeking Asylum, and Economic Migration

been successful (there have been severe criticisms of the GATT treaties, the WTO and the IMF/ World Bank in the latter part of the...

Asylum Seeking by Refugees

(Cragg, 2000). Implication for social work practice in working with refugees (recognised status) The granting of refugee status ...

Labor Migration of Refugees

In five pages Latino refugee migration is considered within the context of Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut's Immigrant Ameri...

Cuban and Haitian Boat People in the US and Ethnic Tensions

In five pages this paper discusses the tensions that exist in America resulting from the Haitian refugees and Cuban Marielitos or ...

Hmong Refugee Women

In five pages this research paper discusses the Hmong female refugees in U.S. society and their struggles with posttraumatic stres...

Refugees from Tibet

This 6 page paper discusses ways in which Tibetan refugees have succeeded in maintaining their purpose and ethnic identity, even i...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the United Kingdom

there. As such, the organization claims reforms must be made to overall policy in order to more fully embrace, support, accept an...

Conflict Between Palestinians and Israelis

which would be more accommodating and would offer a chance for the Palestinian people to rebuild their culture. As it stands now, ...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Software Engineering Practice and Professional Ethics

from discriminatory practices in the past. The proposed hiring policy of the Kosovo immigrant is a positive action directed towar...

Nashville, Tennessee and Sudanese Refugee Children Immunization

Southern Sudanese are much less likely to be Islamic, and they are more likely to have much darker skin. "The war pits the Arab/M...

Organizational Relief Efforts in Kosovo and Macedonia

In five pages this research paper examines the April 1999 relief efforts to assist the Kosovo refugees. Eight sources are cited i...

Differences Between Economic Migrant and Political Refugee

In three pages this research paper discusses the immigration policy of the United States in a consideration of the terms economic ...

Hong Kong and United States Immigration by Refugees of Vietnam

In eighteen pages the refugees are Vietnam are considered in terms of why they left their homeland to emigrate to the United State...

Sociological and Economic Considerations for the European Union

In thirteen pages this research paper examines the EU in terms of its advantages, pros and cons regarding economics, and sociologi...