Download or read book Central American Refugees Regional Conditions and Prospects and Potential Impact on the United States el Salvador Guatemala Nicaragua written by United States. COMPTROLLER GENERAL. and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central American Refugees Regional Conditions and Prospects and Potential Impact on the United States written by GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV. and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil strife and deteriorating economic conditions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala have caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to seek asylum and assistance in other Central American countries, Mexico and the United States. While international organizations and some asylum country governments provide the basic material needs of refugees who seek assistance most refugees remain outside assistance programs. This report discusses the policies of an extent of assistance given to Central American refugees by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and other international organizations, refugees' living conditions and prospects in asylum countries, and U.s. and asylum government policies toward refugees. it also examines (1) the link between assistance and asylum opportunities available to refugees in the region and the possible future migration of refugees to the United States and (2) the potential impact of such migration. (Author).
Download or read book Central American Refugees written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central American Refugees written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central American Refugees: Regional Conditions and Prospects and Potential Impact on the United States
Download or read book Central American Refugees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugees and U S Asylum Seekers from Central America written by Nancy R. Kingsbury and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Problems in Central America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Have a Voice and We Can Speak written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the findings of a delegation visiting Central America to study the situation of Central American refugees, especially women and children, and to develop recommendations to facilitate their return and reintegration. Improving the conditions of refugee women in Central America means improving the conditions of all women. Some women have broken the traditional division of labour in order to provide for their families, but some humanitarian agencies help widows only. This has led to conflicts and the shunning of single women and widows. Women's health levels must be raised and women must have access to resources. Alleviating women's poverty requires the political will to reform and to ensure a more equal distribution of resources. Where agrarian reforms have taken place legislation should allow women to inherit and to gain title to land. Alternative systems of access and tenure should be considered. Without land as collateral women cannot obtain credit which is needed to increase their productivity and income. Needing the co-signature of a husband or father, or a loan, is a major obstacle to the growing number of women who are widowed, divorced, abandoned or single heads of households. Women should be included in loan programmes; group responsibility for payback, flexible repayment schemes and technical assistance should be provided. Health is related to women's productive capacity and ability to look after families. Assisting women to grow more and better food crops will increase incomes and improve nutrition. Women should also have primary and reproductive health care. Linking these needs is education, which has a direct influence on women's relationships, child-bearing and economic opportunities. Women who attend primary school tend to marry later and have fewer children. Their children are more likely to attend school and be healthier. The report urges the international community, especially the United States Government and the UNHCR, to continue support during peacetime reconstruction in Central America. The report also makes recommendations to the governments and countries of the region.
Download or read book Central American Refugees Hopes for Reconciliation Peace and Repatriation written by B. (ed.) Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article surveys the current status and future prospects of refugee repatriation in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and identifies some common factors influencing return patterns in the region. In the section on Guatemala, the author reviews a decade of violence. As for prospects for return to Guatemala, it is noted that the issue of refugee repatriation is closely linked with the situation of internally displaced people. The author argues that the pressure on land - the conflicts between returnees and those who have remained or been resettled - will only intensify in the event of a large-scale return. Given Guatemala's extremely unequal distribution of land and the desperate economic conditions of the rural highlands, it is stated, a massive return of refugees would create severe stresses on the country's infrastructure. As for El Salvador, the article describes a major “repoblación” movement in which the internally displaced began to return to their communities of origin and to re-build their devastated communities. It is concluded that popular weariness with the war, peace negotiations and the opposition's participation in the political process offer real hope for change in El Salvador. The section on Nicaragua notes the differences with El Salvador. Causes of political violence are enumerated, as well as other internal conditions causing potential returnees to hesitate. The article analyses economics, repatriation and the International Conference on Central American Refugees (CIREFCA). It is noted that the economic conditions in the countries of origin make the cost of assisting returning refugees a very high burden for the governments involved. A project by one community of 8,000 repatriated Salvadorans is described in detail.
Download or read book Conditions Creating Refugees and U S Asylum Seekers from Central America written by Thomas J. Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugees and Displaced Persons in Central America written by Patricia Weiss Fagen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the situation of refugees and displaced persons in Central America with particular emphasis on assistance and protection issues and on the US Government's policy in the region. It is divided into five parts. The first contains an overview of refugee exoduses and movements of displaced persons within Central America and Mexico. The author suggests that the US Government has not paid sufficient attention to the problems of refugees and displaced persons in Central America, despite the fact that US contributions to UNHCR have been an essential component in the international refugee programmes in that region. The legal status of refugees and protection issues in each country are examined in the second and third parts. The author notes that Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and, recently, Guatemala and El Salvador are signatories to the UN 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol. At the same time, she observes that there are no refugee programmes in Guatemala and that the UNHCR has neither been invited to investigate the conditions of the 70,000 Salvadorians there nor to establish programmes to help them. It is pointed out that, while adhering to the principle of non-refoulement, the Mexican Government has been under pressure both internally and also from the US Government to pursue repatriation negotiations with the Guatemalan Government, and that some Salvadorian refugees may have been sent back across the border to Guatemala. The author argues that displaced persons are on the whole more vulnerable than refugee groups to repression and assault, and she notes that the situation in El Salvador has been recognized as a major humanitarian emergency by the Government. The two final parts of the report contain the conclusions and recommendations. The author's recommendations include: 1) assistance programmes should be channelled through local churches or other independent agencies; 2) the US Government should ensure that its assistance programmes be administered by social service agencies, not the military as is the case in Guatemala; 3) there should be an increased international presence in Nicaragua to exert a humanitarian influence in issues concerning Miskito Indians; 4) the US should continue to support ICRC programmes in Nicaragua; 5) US assistance programmes in El Salvador should be less politicized; and 6) the US Government should avoid allowing political and military considerations to take precedence over the protection of refugees. In conclusion, the author suggests that the restoration of peace in the region would result in voluntary repatriation.
Download or read book Developing Solutions for Central American Refugee Problems written by Jonathan Moore and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migration and remittances in Central America New evidence and pathways for future research written by Kate Ambler and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emigration from the countries of Central America has evolved since the 1960s from small numbers of largely intra-regional emigrants to substantial numbers of people, emigrating in large part to the United States. For example, in 1960, 69 percent of emigrants from El Salvador resided in Honduras and only 12 percent lived in the United States. By 2000, 88 percent of Salvadoran emigrants in the world lived in the United States.
Download or read book Politics in Central America written by Thomas P. Anderson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and balanced presentation of the dilemmas associated with each of the four nations. A skillful cultural framework is provided in the first chapter, which serves as an overview. Foreign Affairs A fine study. Anderson's reputation as a scholar and a Latin Americanist will be enhanced when this study has time to make its imprint. American Political Science Review This new volume provides an up-to-date survey of the Central American states involved in the current conflict. While several studies of the individual countries in the region have appeared, there have been no recent attempts at a synthesis of the problems of the area. Politics in Central America fills this gap, analyzing the roots of the current crisis and suggesting solutions to the problems of the region. The author's chief assertion is that the roots of the problems in Central America are not to be found in the East-West struggle but in the competition within each country for control of the scarce natural resources. This crisis in Central America calls for drastic and economic changes. The key question, Anderson claims, is whether or not these changes can be brought about within a democratic framework.
Download or read book Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is one of several studies conducted by UNODC on organized crime threats around the world. These studies describe what is known about the mechanics of contraband trafficking - the what, who, how, and how much of illicit flows - and discuss their potential impact on governance and development. Their primary role is diagnostic, but they also explore the implications of these findings for policy. Publisher's note.
Download or read book Flight Exile and Return written by Adrianne Aron and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were originally presented at a symposium organized by the Committee for Health Rights in Central America (CHRICA). They were later presented at the 21st Congress of the Interamerican Psychological Society which met in Havana, Cuba, in the summer of 1987. The book contains four papers. The first is entitled 'From dirty war to psychological war: The case of El Salvador.' The author examines war and democracy in El Salvador. The thesis is that the psychological war now being developed by the armed forces of El Salvador is a legacy of the 'dirty war' that went on from 1980 to 1983. In order to show how the current psychological war is the expression of the old 'dirty war', the author contrasts three essential elements of dirty war and psychological war: their objectives, their methods, and the psychological consequences they produce. The second paper deals with 'Refugees without sanctuary: Salvadorans in the United States'. The paper challenges the American court's methodology for assessing fear, and its conclusions regarding well-founded fear. With clinical data drawn from a sample of refugees in the United States, the paper argues that under conditions of low-intensity warfare as they exist today in El Salvador fears of persecution are indeed well-founded. The paper also looks at the psychological ramifications of a massive denial of political asylum to a refugee population that has suffered traumatic abuse at home and fails to find sanctuary abroad. Case studies are given of victims and their psychological disorders. The third paper deals with 'Political reality and psychological damage'. It considers three levels of exile: time, space, and identity. The object of the paper is to present the use of testimony as a therapeutic tool and a case study is given. The last paper in this volume deals with 'Returning from exile: One more violent experience'. The author stresses the various difficulties in returning to one's country of origin with Chile as the example. Special reference is made to the conducive setting of group therapy to help people returning from exile feel part of the collective whole.
