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Displaced Persons Act of 1948; Long title: An act to authorize for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of certain European displaced persons for permanent residence, and for other purposes: Enacted by: the 80th United States Congress: Effective: June 25, 1948: Citations; Public law: 80-774: Statutes at Large: 62 Stat ...
A migrant who fled their home because of economic hardship is an economic migrant, and strictly speaking, not a displaced person.; If the displaced person was forced out of their home because of economically driven projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam in China, the situation is referred to as development-induced displacement.
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The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 was the United States' second refugee admissions and resettlement law, following the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which expired at the end of 1952. [1] Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians , 17,000 Greeks , 17,000 Dutch , and 45,000 immigrants from ...
Following the partition, there were perhaps 330 million people in India, 30 million in West Pakistan, and 30 million people in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). [109] Once the boundaries were established, about 14.5 million people crossed the borders to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority.
Before World War II, roughly 500,000 German-speaking people (mostly Danube Swabians) lived in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. [103] [196] Most fled during the war or emigrated after 1950 thanks to the Displaced Persons Act of 1948; some were able to emigrate to the United States. During the final months of World War II a majority of the ethnic ...
This is a category of articles concerning acts of Parliament (laws enacted by the Parliament of India in 1948). For more general discussion of Indian legal topics, see Category:Law of India and its other subcategories.
Numerous families were displaced and many lost their lives in the partition. [4] It aims to remind Indians the need to remove social divisions, disharmony and to further strengthen the spirit of oneness, social harmony and human empowerment. [5] The partition had left 10 to 20 million people displaced and left 200,000 to 2 million dead.