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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...

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...

Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

Refugees in Australia

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Impact of Climate Change

Refugees Currently, there are millions of people worldwide who are being displaced every year due to the impact of climate change...

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...

Surviving Rwanda: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Evil

The dialogue uses the book The Lucifer effect as its main source; the people have been hiding in the bathroom for a week at the po...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 "...

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...

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 ...

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...

Asylum Seeking

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

Asylum Seeking by Refugees

(Cragg, 2000). Implication for social work practice in working with refugees (recognised status) The granting of refugee status ...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the United Kingdom

there. As such, the organization claims reforms must be made to overall policy in order to more fully embrace, support, accept an...

Conflict Between Palestinians and Israelis

which would be more accommodating and would offer a chance for the Palestinian people to rebuild their culture. As it stands now, ...