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In the wake of the 2015 European migrant crisis, a debate began on how society should deal with immigration and integration in light of the large number of refugees and migrants and incidents such as numerous racist attacks on refugee homes and sexual assaults on an estimated 1,200 women on 2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany. [91]
A refugee camp is a place built by governments or NGOs (such as the Red Cross) to receive refugees, internally displaced persons or sometimes also other migrants. It is usually designed to offer acute and temporary accommodation and services and any more permanent facilities and structures often banned.
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
By ALBERTO ARCE and MARCOS ALEMAN SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by ...
Compared to refugee crisis (refugee is a refugee), migrant crises also have a separate or distinguish between the “deserving” refugee from the “undeserving” migrant and play into fear of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in the midst of increasing intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations and ...
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.
The Biden administration will allow some migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are already in Mexico to apply to enter the United States as refugees, White House national security ...
The immigration courts had a backlog of 394,000 asylum cases in January 2021, and 470,000 in March 2022, [81] although another source says the backlog in November 2021 was 672,000, with an average wait of 1,942 days (5 1/3 years). [82] The overall immigration court backlog was 1.9 million in August 2022, with an average wait of 798 days (2.2 ...