In the last two decades, more than 97,000 Afghans have been resettled in the U.S., according to data from the State Department analyzed by U.S. News. They have arrived primarily through two channels: gaining refugee status or obtaining a special immigrant visa. The Department of Homeland...
Introduction Much acclaimed and celebrated Afghan writer, Khalid Hosseni in one his works, the Kite Runner mentions “There are many children in Afghanistan, but little childhood” (Hosseini, 2011). A statement as such is years of honour and threat their generations had to encounter simply to ...
The transitional DEMOS government stripped approximately 25,000 people, Slovenian residents and Yugoslav citizens who originated in other ex-Yugoslav republics, of their resident status once they failed to apply for the new Slovenian citizenship. The statuses of permanent resident and citizen were ...
In general, refugee tunately, the high rates ofpregnancy are at the settings lack adequate attention and programs expense of refugee women's already fragile for the most vulnerable-pregnant and nurs- health status. The World Health Organization ing mothers, children, and the elderly. Al- (WHO)...
refugee camp- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs camp shelter- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. ...
The global spread of the coronavirus pandemic has particularly dramatic consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees living in already marginalised and restricted conditions, whose ongoing crisis is at risk of being overlooked. But refugees are no
I think they’d love to be able to go back to Afghanistan someday; it’s their homeland. They tell me how beautiful it is, how gorgeous the mountains are, how you can pick fruit right off the trees. But for now, they’re making a life here. They all want to become citizens. Ali...
Afghan Refugee Camp Surveys in Pakistan, 2002 Both as professionals and as citizens, the events of the last years have brought about many changes to our view of the world and our engagement in it. This survey was one response to those changes. Its main goal was measuring attitudes o... ...
terrorist movements have been disguised as refugee migration movements (Nicolescu, 2017: 175), with ISIS fighters taking advantage of the possibility of refugee status to be able to stage an attack- as has been the case in Germany, for example in the attack of a young Afghan on a train in...
The Cold War mentality was clearly evident when citizens of countries who were not fleeing communist regimes tried to win refugee status. After the successful 1973 revolt against the socialist government of Chile led to the execution and internment of thousands of Chileans, the United States took ...