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Those who seek Asylum
There is a good, succinct article about asylum in Immigrant Connect Chicago. Asylum-seekers (asylees) are different from refugees only in that they arrive in the U.S. and ask for asylum, as opposed to...
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Refugee Congress elected by government resettlement contractors
It seems like each time refugees resettled to the US have contact with the federal government resettlement contractors first select them. Yet, does anyone ever stop to think how this practice fails to...
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Senior Official Says Intelligence Indicates Security Threat Much Broader Than...
A senior Obama administration official says that intelligence indicates the security threat is much broader than the two Iraqi refugees arrested in May in Bowling Green, Ky., and accused of plotting to...
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Utica Uses Refugees To Boost Population Level
Its clear that political officials in various declining US regions have decided that our country’s humanitarian refugee resettlement program should be used in concert with these cities’ needs. A major...
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Discussion of refugees’ problems hijacked to pathologise a religion or culture
Refugees who show and attempt to openly talk about personal problems can find others who wish to hijack the discussion for their own ulterior motives. An article from Australia highlights the same...
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Mapping out power differences the starting point to giving the vulnerable a...
Trying to root out abuse of refugees in the humanitarian community at the international level has been much more difficult than anticipated. Some of the variables involved – including the role of power...
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US to accept only 9000 of Syria’s 3.8 Mil. Refugees
BBC graphic, December 7, 2014 Counties around the world have so far agreed to accept 66,254 of Syria’s 3.8 million displaced refugees. Of those, the US says it is reviewing only 9000 resettlement...
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World Food Program for now resumes food assistance to Syrian refugees
Although this blog mainly covers the US domestic refugee resettlement program, we occasionally cover related issues. Of extreme urgency in recent months has been food aid to Syrian refugees. In...
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US to take in 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees this year
The US is set to take in 1,000 to 2,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year. The goal through fy2016 is 10,000. Only 323 Syrians were resettled in the U.S. in 2014, 36 in 2013, but Larry Bartlett,...
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World Refugee Day — June 20th, 2015
On this World Refugee Day in 2015 the world is now seeing the most dire refugee crises that has ever been recorded. The UNHCR reports that at the end of 2014 there were 60 million people displaced (one...
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UNHCR Says Syrian Refugees Will Be Processed in Canada
It looks as if Canada might just succeed in resettling 25,000 Syrians before the end of the year. In a glimmer of how Canada will achieve that the UNHCR has announced that it is working with Canada to...
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The myth that the US government discriminated against Christian refugees
Some media outlets are trying to foment the false notion that the US and UK governments have discriminated against Syrian Christian refugees. The claim is that the discrimination is “unintentional”....
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St. Cloud Times Columnist spreads misinformation
If you have to make your point with lies, what does that say about the value of your message? A “volunteer” right-wing columnist at The St. Cloud Times named A.J. Kern claims that Muslim refugees...
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Screening of Syrian refugees is not being accelerated
Although in September President Obama ordered that at least 10,000 Syrian refugees be resettled in the United States for the 2016 fiscal year, it looks as if that may not be possible. The stringent...
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65 million worldwide displaced from their homes this World Refugee Day
A record 65.3 million people are displaced worldwide this World Refugee Day 2016. An article at Voice of America News has the story: GENEVA— It’s not just that the doors of Europe are closing to...
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The positive economic impact of refugees
A new study from a researcher at UC Davis shows that refugees receiving aid—especially in the form of cash—can can give their host country’s economy a major boost. The study showed that economic...
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LGBTI refugees struggle in Mideast
Being a refugee and LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) can be a double stigma. LGBTI refugees in the Mideast face a heightened risk of violent abuse, including harassment,...
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