If that plan remains on track, the number of refugees admitted in the coming months will rival that of the total resettlement of all Afghan refugees to the U.S. since the U.S. first bombed the country in 2001. In the last two decades, more than 97,000 Afghans have been resettled ...
The overall purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the value of a gendered lens by focusing upon employment as a factor in overall integration, a process that includes resettlement and transitions to permanent residency and citizenship. The connections between employment, English-language education,...
The Making of a Model Refugee: Refugee Resettlement and Employment Services in Ottawa, ON This report identifies five principal barriers to newly arrived refugees finding jobs: limited English, a lack of work experience, poor health, a lack of opportunities for women and having only been in Austr...
“I believe a review of the refugee resettlement program is reasonable so that we ensure there is a strong vetting process in place to make sure America is safe,” Hoeven said in a statement, according to the Bismarck Tribune. Sen. Jim Inhofe (Okla.) Inhofe said in a statement that, “...
to meet our new neighbors’ pressing needs, including housing, jobs, skilling and legal services,” said Sweet. “Accenture has worked in refugee aid for a decade, so we are building on our experience to help create scalable, repeatable solutions to improve our country’s resettlement system....
The work was done through a partnership between Georgia State University and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Atlanta, a local resettlement agency, where the counseling sessions took place. The IRC's DeKalb County headquarters served as a familiar locale for refugees to go to. Counselors...
The institutional responses to the challenge of dealing with the refugees were increasingly bureaucratized at the borders, in the buffer zones, in asylum and detention centers, and at the hotspots, resettlement centers, and refugee camps to prevent the refugees’ movement. Once the Balkans Corridor...
Critics of the refugee resettlement program claim we don’t need to resettle refugees when we can support them abroad. But it shouldn’t be a choice of either/or – we can support refugees like the Somali refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camp and give some the opportunity for a new...
Immigration and Naturalization Service have written to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging that two White House-ordered reports on refugee resettlement costs be balanced by also tallying the benefits refugees bring to the United States. Reuters in June first reported discord over the repo...
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment involving unaccompanied children. Interim final rule (IFR). Fed Regist. 2014;79(247...