- 125‚000 Vietnamese during the Spring of 1975‚ as part of “Operation New Life.” The Vietnamese immigrants were brought to US government bases in Guam‚ Thailand‚ Wake Island‚ Hawaii and the Philippines. Subsequently‚ they were transferred to 4 refugee centers: Camp Pendleton in California Fort Chaffee in Arkansas Eglin Air Force Base in Florida Fort Indiantown Gap in Pennsylvania. As might be expected when immediately following the Vietnam war‚ the American populous did not welcome Vietnamese
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and lack of adequate aid‚ Kenya feels it has no choice but to remove all refugees. Kenya’s possible forced removal of Somali refugees violates international and national refugee law by repatriating displaced peoples into a country classified as a “failed” state; therefore‚ the United States should send funds to pay for more refugee camps in Kenya‚ but otherwise‚ remain uninvolved due to the crisis Americans already face.
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not an unknown topic to Australia. The Asylum seekers or ‘boat people’ have been contentious issue in Australian politics for many years. According to Google dictionary an Asylum seeker is: “a person who has left their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another.”The big debate surrounding the area of asylum seekers is how to moderate the amount of boat people coming into Australia. The Malaysian Solution was one of the approaches to reduce the amount of asylum seekers arriving
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countries overseas as a result of the conflict are refugees according to the 1951 Convention Relating to the status of refugees (UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)‚ 1951). From the above comparison‚ it is important to realize that what separates a refugee from an internally displaced person (IDP) is one crossing an international border. Though both have fled their homes‚ one remains
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regime and Gulf States providing arms to the opposition. Sectarian violence related to the conflict has been seen in Lebanon and Iraq and millions of refugees have fled into neighboring countries. Appeals for international aid have increased as the UN refugee agency in September 2013 estimated that over 2 million Syrians were now refugees‚ up from around 230‚000 just one year before. On August 21‚ 2013‚ the crisis took on a dangerous new dimension with a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian regime that
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undertake a journey to discover the life of a refugee. Their discoveries offered them a new understanding and reviewed their perceptions of refugees. Therefore‚ their process of discovery had made them to question their view of the world. “Go back to Where You Came From” is a social experiment that was on the SBS channel. In this reality show six ordinary Australians Raye‚ Raquel‚ Glenny‚ Adam‚ Darren and Roderick undertake a journey in the life of a refugee. The main purpose of this show is to build
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According to Refugee Footprint‚ “Every refugee has the right to safe asylum”. There are many people in the world seeking a place to live. These displaced people are given the name refugees. Millions of people who live difficult lives are seeking a place to live due to the fact they are forced from their homes and each country that they go to respond differently. Refugee lives typically differ greatly from the lives of people in prosperous countries. Standard of Living in the Developing World‚ which
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The Syrian Refugee Immigration Policy is one that needs to be reviewed- and quickly. The United States is known as the nation of immigrants. Our culture is very ethnically and culturally diverse. This diversity is something we pride ourselves on. However‚ recently there has been a great deal of debate and controversy on and over how many immigrants the US should allow into the country. These arguments have seen no resolution and just seem to keep getting bigger and intensifying. One very popular
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issues‚ one being asylum seekers. An asylum seeker is a person who from fear of persecution‚ for reasons of race‚ religion‚ social group‚ or political opinion‚ has crossed an international frontier into a country in which he or she hopes to be granted refugee status. The feeling of not belonging‚ can cause innocent people to flee their country. The effects that not belonging can have can be seen clearly in many current events‚
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there was extended drought in the horn of Africa and Somalia was the worse effected. The combination of this drought and the conflict that had been going on for 20 years cause people to leave the country in mass‚ around 3‚000 people a day‚ to get to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Causes Political: Most of southern Somalia is controlled by the al-Shabab Islamist group‚ which refused international aid organisations‚ including the World Food Programme‚ entry to its areas two years
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