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This is a list of prominent people who fled their native country, went into exile and found refuge in another country. The list follows the current legal concept of refugee only loosely. It also includes children of people who have fled. The people are ordered according to the field in which they made their names.
General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany: Indicted in Germany for the deaths of 192 East Germans who tried to leave the GDR in violation of anti-Republikflucht laws. Russia: Moscow Chile: December 24, 1991 () March 1, 1992 () 68 days Extradited by the Yeltsin administration back to Germany Mohammad Najibullah
This led to a loyalty investigation by the U.S. State Department in 1953, also his name being discussed in the U.S. Congress House Committee on un-American Activities. [1] During 1953, while living in France, and working as an official at UNESCO (the United Nations Education and Scientific Organization) Mr. Duberg refused to answer a series of ...
The people often settled together from the same region of Germany and so spoke the same German dialect. Originally recruited and welcomed to the Russian Empire in the 18th century, when they were promised to be allowed to practice own language and religions and to be exempted from compulsory military service, the Germans from Russia found ...
Woodburn, Oregon – large Russian Old believer community as well as Russian Molokans, Doukhobors and recent refugees from the former Soviet Union: Ukrainian and Russian Pentecostals and Baptists. Little Russia, Richmond District, San Francisco, California - Small part of San Francisco's Richmond district. Large Chinese population as well.
The following is an incomplete list of notable people who have been deported from the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), particularly the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), handles all matters of deportation. [ 1 ]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...