Download or read book Fulfilling U S Commitment to Refugee Resettlement written by Sabrineh Ardalan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the U.S. refugee admissions program is under serious threat and the world's displaced population is at its highest, this Report sets forth extensive recommendations regarding the United States' role in protecting refugees and compliance with its commitments under domestic and international law that together safeguard people fleeing persecution and fearing return to torture. The Report also identifies key national security reasons for supporting and enhancing the refugee program in keeping with U.S. foreign policy priorities. Additionally, the Report provides an in-depth discussion of the robust, multistep security-assessment mechanisms already in place for screening refugees; offers viable policy solutions to improve the integration of resettled refugees through enhanced collaboration among government agencies, private resettlement agencies, and sponsors involved in domestic resettlement; and demonstrates the positive economic impact of refugee resettlement in the United States. Drawing on the perspectives of longtime domestic refugee resettlement experts, the Report also provides fresh insights into how public-private partnerships function in refugee resettlement and the ways in which they can be strengthened.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement Program written by United States. Office of Refugee Resettlement and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Thought It Would Be Heaven written by Blair Sackett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small things—one person, one encounter—can make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees’ experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement in the Heartland of America written by Robert Funseth and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Success of the U S Refugee Admissions Program written by Audrey Lumley-Sapanski and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be considered a refugee by international definition, one must be living outside of ones home country and unable or unwilling to return home. Having lost their citizenship, homes, rights, and livelihood, many refugees live in limbo for years following displacement in second (host) nations. There they have few legal rights and no pathway to citizenship. Acceptance for third country resettlement offers refugees a pathway out of this liminality. However, refugees are assigned to third country resettlement sites with limited input over location. Refugees selected for resettlement through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program are brought to the U.S. and placed in housing and jobs by refugee resettlement agencies whose goal is to help them integrate and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Though a fundamentally humanitarian act, resettlement is a difficult and challenging process for refugees who often arrive lacking language or employment skills, knowledge of their new communities, or support structures. In this study, I examine the outcomes of refugees brought to Chicago through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, with particular attention to their spatial and economic trajectories. To do so, I employ a mixed methods, multiscalar, multidimensional approach. I conducted interviews with 62 refugees, predominately Bhutanese, Burmese, and Iraqi, and 55 stakeholders. I combined the findings from those interviews with analysis of individual level address (n=725) and employment data (n=865) for refugees resettled between 2008 and 2012 within Chicago. Additionally, I employ a form of extended case study, incorporating my experiences as a case manager and program director.I observe significant differences in refugee resettlement trajectories by population. These differences can largely be explained by the interaction of pre-arrival characteristics and experiences of displacement, with the local context of resettlement. However, these factors do not fully explain divergent outcomes. I find that groups work to re-configure aspects of their previous lives, intentionally or otherwise through the prioritization of particular values, goals, and desires. These differences shape choices in residential location, type of housing, and employment mobility. Based on findings, I propose a new model of the refugee resettlement process which incorporates the institutional, temporal and physical aspects of resettlement as well as the central factors which explain individual resettlement pathways and outcomes.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement Program written by United States. Office of Refugee Resettlement and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land written by Dr. Joseph Boomenyo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.
Download or read book U S Refugee Policy written by Kathleen Newland and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Newland argues that the United States must abandon the Cold War underpinnings of its refugee policies and programs in favor of policies that strive to minimize the need for protection--through a policy of prevention and repatriation. To meet its international obligation to help protect the world's refugees, the United States must restructure its refugee program along more robust lines, focusing on the refugee's need for protection and access to asylum.
Download or read book U S Refugee Resettlement Assistance written by Andorra Bruno and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the United States has admitted an increasingly diverse group of refugees and other humanitarian cases with a diverse set of needs. There seems to be broad consensus that the U.S. refugee resettlement assistance system is not adequately meeting the needs of these new arrivals and is ripe for reform. The National Security Council is leading an interagency review of refugee resettlement, the forthcoming results of which may further energize reform efforts. To help inform possible future efforts to reform the refugee resettlement assistance system, this report discusses existing resettlement assistance programs, key challenges and issues in providing effective assistance, and policy options to reform the current system.
Download or read book 10 Million to 1 written by Jeffrey Kirk and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are coming. Who? Refugees. Every year, the President and Congress determine the arrival quota, the small percentage of refugees who will have a chance to start a new life in the United States during that year. But just because theyre coming does not mean they are somehow lucky or that they are even going to make it in our land of opportunity. To have the best shot at success, they need your help. 10 MILLION TO 1 is about the help, direction, and love you can provide to refugees as they arrive in our country and take their first steps toward self-sufficiency. This book describes how you, who have likely grown up in the comfort of America, can welcome a refugee family and get them started on the path to a new and prosperous life as contributing members of our society. You will discover all the steps you need, from meeting them upon arrival at the airport to getting them housing to finding them jobs. Along the way, you will experience personal growth in ways you never imagined. In time, you may witness the ultimate heartwarming outcome when you see the decision, the steps, and the fulfillment as former refugees become citizens of our great nation. Oh, yes, the world is a better place.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement in the United States written by Richard J. Irvin and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview on the admission of refugees to the United States and their resettlement here which is authorized by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended by the Refugee Act of 1980. The 1980 Act had two basic purposes: (1)to provide a uniform procedure for refugee admissions; and (2)to authorize federal assistance to resettle refugees and promote their self-sufficiency. The intent of the legislation was to end an ad-hoc approach to refugee admissions and resettlement that had characterized U.S. refugee policy since World War II. Under the INA, a refugee is a person who is outside his or her country and who is unable or unwilling to return because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement in the United States written by Marnie K. Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on refugee resettlement in the post-9/11 environment of the United States with theoretical work and ethnographic case studies that portray loss, transition, and resilience. Each chapter unpacks resettlement at the macro or micro scale, underscoring the multiple, and mostly unsupported, negotiations refugees must undertake in their familial, social, educational, and work spheres to painstakingly reconstruct and reintegrate their lives. The contributors show how civil society groups and individuals push back against xenophobic policies and strive to support refugee communities, and how agentive efforts result in refugees establishing stable lives, despite punishing odds. This volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars with a focus on refugee and migration studies.
Download or read book Navigating Integration Policies of Forced Migration in the United States written by Wa’ed Alshoubaki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land written by Dr Joseph Boomenyo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.
Download or read book The Commitment to Refugee Resettlement written by Barry Nathan Stein and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Send Them Here written by Geoffrey Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980, both countries transformed their previous policies of refugee deterrence into expansive resettlement programs. Explanations for this shift have typically focused on Cold War foreign policy, but there was a domestic force that propelled the rise of resettlement: religious groups. In Send Them Here Geoffrey Cameron explains the genesis and development of refugee resettlement policy in North America through the lens of the essential role played by faith-based organizations. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish groups led advocacy efforts for refugees after the Second World War, and they cooperated with each other and their respective governments to implement the first formal resettlement programs. Those policy frameworks laid the foundation for diverging policy trajectories in each country, leading ultimately to private sponsorship in Canada and the voluntary agency program in the United States. Religious groups remain embedded in the world’s most successful refugee resettlement programs. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the history of refugee policy, human rights, and the role of religion in modern policymaking and global humanitarian efforts.
Download or read book Understanding the Multifaceted Management Problems of Refugee Resettlement in the United States of America written by Prof. Justin B. Mudekereza and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Multifaced Management Problems of Refugee Resettlement in the United States of America By: Prof. Justin B. Mudekereza Centering on a social justice theme, this book explains the realities of the life that refugees live upon their resettlement in the United States. There are many problems in the sector of refugee resettlement in the country. Readers of this book should hope to understand the multifaceted management problems of resettlement in the United States. This is the only social war that the United States is unlikely to win.
