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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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Asylum Seeking

In ten pages this paper discusses asylum seekers and issues that refugees must consider regarding policies in Great Britain and Un...

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...

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...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

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...

Welfare Benefits for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK

seekers have to place on the welfare state. Initially asylum seekers would have had the rights to the same non contributory welfar...

Legislation for Welfare Provision for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK

is an asylum seeker, once the asylum is granted they become a recognised refugee. The rights of asylum seekers are severely limite...

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 ...