Refugees and UNHCR
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Refugees and UNHCR
UNHCR Regional Office for the United States and the Caribbean
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History1921 - Nansen named 1st High Commissioner for Refugees
1945 WWII ends with 3 million refugees still homeless
1950 UNHCR is founded
1951 Refugee Convention is adopted
1950-60s Hungarian, Algerian, Tibetan, and Rwandan outflows
1975 SE Asia exodus begins
1980s Afghan, Ethiopian, Iranian, Central American outflows
1990s Bosnian, Liberian, Rwandan, Somali, & Sudanese outflows
2000s Darfuri, Iraqi, & Congolese outflows
2012-2013 1 million + Syrians flee
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Who is a refugee?Of the 7,000,000,000 persons in the world15,000,000+ are refugees.
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Refugee A universal definition Article (1) 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of RefugeesA refugee is any person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecutedfor reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion,is outside of his country of nationality, and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country
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Rights of Refugees
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Durable solutionsRepatriationLocal IntegrationResettlement
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Steps for Refugee ResettlementRefugee status determinationor registration processIdentification of aneed for resettlementResettlement country refugee status determinationand admissibilityproceduresClearancesTravelReception & IntegrationSubmission
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How Refugees Access the US Resettlement ProgramIndividual Referrals byUS EmbassiesUNHCROverseas NGOs Designated groups ofconcern to the USFamily Reunion
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Nationalities of refugeesresettled to the US in 2012
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15070
14160
12160
4911
1948
1863
1758
7951
Arrivals
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Arrivals
Bhutan15,070
Burma14,160
Iraq12,160
Somalia4,911
Cuba1948
Congo-DRC1863
Iran1758
All others7951
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Nationalities of persons granted asylum in the US in 2012
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11463
2333
820
819
790
759
682
616
518
12394
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China11,463
Egypt2333
Nepal820
Haiti819
Venezuela790
Iran759
Russia682
Guatemala616
Cameroon518
All others12394
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More information on refugees
WWW.UNHCR.ORG
Data.UNHCR.org
UNHCR Refworld
WWW.UNHCRWASHINGTON.ORG
Refugee Processing Center www.wrapsnet.org
Office of Refugee Resettlement -http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/
Center for Applied Linguistics - www.cal.org
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Thank you!
*1 out 700 persons in the world is a refugee.