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Migrants living in camps have faced a much higher risk of transmitting and getting COVID-19. Life in these camps has featured overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, poor nutrition, and very poor health care. [6] Rises in COVID-19 cases were reported in migrant and refugee camps in 2020 in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and on Greek islands. [7]
Disease surveillance in refugee camps was already a major part of outbreak response. Contact tracing in refugee camps has become especially important to minimize COVID-19 transmission. [49] In places like Cox's Bazar, the largest refugee settlement in the world, [49] the World Health Organization now tests over 500 samples for COVID-19 a day. [49]
The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) is a team of researchers and practitioners supporting work on the inclusion of refugees in public policy and the localization of refugee research. The group is hosted by Carleton University in Canada. The network increases understanding of research centres in refugee-hosting countries.
The Immigration Act, 1976, insured by the Parliament of Canada, was the first immigration legislation to clearly outline the objectives of Canadian immigration policy, define refugees as a distinct class of immigrants, and mandate the Canadian government to consult with other levels of government in the planning and management of immigration.
Belle Mukire, 21, and Dorcas Shimwe, 16, spent years in Burundian refugee camps before they arrived in Austin public schools. In 2004, the Mukire family fled Congo after brewing ethnic tensions ...
The number of migrant arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border fell sharply in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but then rose later that year, partly due to repeat crossers.
Refugee camp (located in present-day eastern Congo-Kinshasa) for Rwandans following the Rwandan genocide of 1994 A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in
From 1945 to 1952, most Ukrainians coming to Canada were political refugees and Displaced Persons. In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Ukrainians who had been displaced by the war began to immigrate to Canada. These immigrants were often refugees who had been forced to flee their homes and were looking for a safe haven.