Refugees: Constructing a Hindu Diaspora in the US By Sanjeev Kumar I happened to meet Bhutanese refugees of Nepali origin for the first time at a Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) camp in Tampa‚ Florida in December 2008. These refugees travelled to the US via Nepal‚ having left Bhutan and entered Nepal in the 1990s. The refugee crisis was prompted by Government-sponsored discrimination against Nepali speakers in Bhutan (Banki 2008). In the late 1990s the first batch of refugees (called Lhotshampai) began
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Are current methods of dealing with refugees effective? Refer to one or more countries as examples. Throughout the world‚ societies have welcomed frightened‚ weary strangers‚ the victims of persecution and violence. The refugee crisis in the modern world occurs largely as a result of civil wars‚ famine and the violation of human rights. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees‚ refugees refer to those who have fled their homes because of a fear of persecution and to seek refuge
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was extended drought in the horn of Africa and Somalia was the worse effected. The combination of this drought and the conflict that had been going on for 20 years cause people to leave the country in mass‚ around 3‚000 people a day‚ to get to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Causes Political: Most of southern Somalia is controlled by the al-Shabab Islamist group‚ which refused international aid organisations‚ including the World Food Programme‚ entry to its areas two years
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host communities‚ since they have been warehoused in refugee camps for long periods of time and may feel estranged. Feldman mentions that one of the biggest issues is the misconception that refugee camps are temporary‚ since “most refugee situations last much longer than this‚ and 7.13 million [refugees] have been [in camps] for 10 or more years” (Feldman‚ 2010). Those camps may also lead refugees to become fully dependent on the aid from the camp‚ preventing
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hardships refugee families face once they have landed in a new country with very little to their name. Through still photographs‚ New Roots aims to document the first year of resettlement for a refugee family as they come to America and settle in Rochester‚ New York. As of June 2013‚ the total population of concern to the UNHCR has reached an all-time high at 37.8 million people‚ including 11.1 million refugees‚ as well as asylum-seekers and internally displaced people. Multiple refugee crises are
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Commissioner for Refugees estimated that there were more than 12 million refugees in the world. This number of refugees has remained relatively constant at greater than 10 million since 1981. Some refugees have been living in camps for most of their lives. For example‚ Afghans have lived in camps in Pakistan and Iran since the early 1980s when the Soviet Union invaded their nation. While some return each year to resettle‚ almost equal numbers leave to escape new regional fighting. The number of Afghan refugees
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refugees currently struggle for survival in sprawling camps in Africa and Asia. Fleeing from genocide‚ imperial aggression and civil war‚ only to be herded into camps or sent back to the country they were escaping‚ these asylum-seekers and returnees are part of a seemingly endless human tragedy. If it was originally a guarantor of refugee rights‚ unhcr has since mutated into a patron of these prisons of the stateless: a network of huge camps that can never meet any plausible ‘humanitarian’ standard
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home country‚ since the outbreak of World War II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees‚ the outstanding world refugee total exceeded twenty-six million in 1996. Deprived of the protection of their state‚ often detached from their families and communities of origin‚ refugees are‚ by any definition‚ particularly vulnerable to violence. Refugee women and their children‚ along with the elderly‚ are the most vulnerable. Due to disruptions before‚ during and after flight (or whatever
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increasing border security‚ demolishing camps and leaving refugees and asylum seekers to their own devices. Taking into account that power is an entanglement of domination and resistance‚ refugees and asylum seekers are empowered in their resistance (Sharp‚ Routledge‚ Philo‚ & Paddison‚ 2000). The mere act of existing and creating
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affecting refugee girls’ access to primary education in the Dadaab refugee camps of Garissa District in the Northeastern Province of Kenya. This study has significance within the tenets of the Convention on the Rights of the Child due to the fact that primary education is considered as a basic right and a tool for protecting refugee populations. In this study‚ the descriptive design was used to enable the researcher collect information concernin g factors affecting refugee girls’ access
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