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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...

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...

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...

Refugees in Australia

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Women and the Australian Legal System: A 13 page paper in 2 parts

of men only. It was not until 1987 - nearly 100 years after the schools emergence as a school and well over 100 years after its f...

Females Seeking Asylum and UK Support and Welfare System Research

gender-related issues which are not adequately addressed by the British welfare and support system: in fact, the trend towards a "...

Katrina Refugees and Rising Crime in Houston

more than 100,000 of New Orleanss displaced residents flocked into town in late August and early September" (Gelinas, 2006). The m...

Social Work with Refugees to Australia

Joseph is a silent sufferer, however. He appears to be suffering ill effects of his treatment in Africa, and his present circumst...

The Horrors and Hope of Hurricane Katrina

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

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...

Sudan's Refugee Situation and the UN

significance of human dignity, there must be a strong sense of connection. People are known to follow blindly, no matter if what ...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

Analyzing the 'Health Visiting and Refugee Families' Article

the processes for data analysis appropriate to answer the research question? The research question, or the purpose of the study, i...

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...

Overview of Operation Provide Comfort of 1991 to 1996

In eight pages this paper discusses the refugee relief provided by the United Nation's Operation Provide Comfort from April of 199...

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 ...

A Look at Plascov's The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan 1948-1957

that are the focus of attention in this book, there was little group cohesion (Plascov, 1981). This fact is explained by the autho...

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...