Is anyone familiar with post-resettlement transferring of credentials for refugees? Would you happen to know of any relevant documents, articles, legislation, etc.?
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posted by Papagayo
on Apr 10, 2012 -
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What are some organizations in Los Angeles that support recent immigrants and/or refugees, where I can become involved on a voluntary basis once or twice a week?
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posted by kensington314
on Nov 26, 2010 -
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I've worked with refugees in the US, now I'd like to volunteer abroad at a refugee camp / with internally displaced persons -- how can I make this happen?
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 4, 2010 -
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At the end of World War II, would a Polish-ethnicity girl/young woman and her family from Lwów/Lviv have been given the
option of moving west of the Curzon line to post-war Poland, or would they have been forcibly resettled?
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posted by mdonley
on Oct 25, 2009 -
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St. Louis, Missouri lost over half its population from 1950-1990. Since the mid-1990s, 80,000 Bosnian immigrants (coming to represent over 20% of the city's population) have established communities that have saved large areas of housing stock from decay. In which other instances have large, permanent groups of non-migrant, non-domestically employed immigrants been settled
en masse helping to shore-up a city that is losing population but otherwise has the infrastructure to accommodate more? Has there been any debate or discussion about hypothetical proposals to encourage something similar in Detroit?
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posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj
on Jul 27, 2009 -
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Is there a process by which a natural-born citizen of the United States can sponsor a UNHCR-referred refugee? I've read all of the refugee/asylum claim related material on the US Customs and Immigration website.
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posted by thewalrus
on Apr 22, 2009 -
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Where can I learn more about contemporary evacuee/refugee camps, in particular, how they are designed, administered and what life is like in these camps? What are the standard texts/reference works on camp design theory and so forth?
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posted by clockworkjoe
on Nov 1, 2007 -
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On a 13 hour layover in the Moscow airport I met a Palestinian refugee who'd been living in the international territory inside customs for 11 months; later I learned about a refugee who's lived in Charles de Gaulle for over a decade. All this makes me curious about international territory: the space between disembarking the airplane & going through customs, & the empty fenced-off stretch between some national borders (I seem to remember Turkey & Syria have a large Syrian/Druze refugee population living between the borders & at the mercy of assistance from passing tourists, but I could be totally wrong).
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posted by soviet sleepover
on Feb 22, 2006 -
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Under the US's 'wet foot, dry foot' policy, Cubans who reach U.S. soil are allowed to stay while those caught at sea are sent home.
Hypothetically (and I mean that), Let's say an American were to: take a boat out between the US and Cuba, drive around looking for refugees, pick them up, brings them back to Florida, and there ends his involvement.
Is the American guilty of a crime? Does it make a difference if the authorities find out after the fact instead of catching him out on the open sea?
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Feb 7, 2005 -
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