United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
What is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?
Refers to the movement of people from one country to another, often for reasons such as employment or education.
What is immigration?
Under this 1951 convention, refugees are granted specific rights and protections, including the right not to be returned to a country where they face serious threats.
What is the Refugee Convention?
A federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and undocumented immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
What is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?
Global event caused a temporary dip in international remittances in 2020
What is COVID-19 pandemic?
Global financial institution that reported that integrating migrants can boost a country's GDP by as much as 2% over a decade
What is the World Bank?
This term refers to the forced displacement of people due to conflict, persecution, or natural disasters.
What is forced migration?
What is CASA?
Country with the largest origin of refugees under UNHCR’s mandate at the end of 2022.
Who is the Syrian Arab Republic?
In 2021, this country hosted the largest number of refugees worldwide, due in part to its open-door policy.
What is Turkey?
In many host countries, refugees may face these restrictions, often limiting their ability to work or access services.
What are legal barriers?
This city in PA recently codified an ordinance limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
What is Lancaster?
According to the latest estimates of the international migrant stock by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, almost _______ people lived in a country other than their country of birth.
What is 281 million?
This region is often cited as the origin of the majority of asylum seekers in Europe, particularly during the Syrian Civil War.
What is the Middle East?
This international coalition, launched in 2016, brings together universities, foundations, businesses, and NGOs to support those forced to flee, focusing on education, shelter, and employment.
What is #WithRefugees?
This offers a wide range of programs aimed at promoting family self-sufficiency, greater access to mainstream services, and fuller participation in local community life in PA.
What is the PA Refugee Resettlement Program?
In 2023, over 8,500 people are known to have died during migration, the highest figure recorded in any year in the past decade. This marks a 20 per cent global increase in migrant deaths over the more than 7,100 deaths recorded in 2022. Year-to-year, 2023 saw an increase in deaths across the Mediterranean, Africa and _____.
What is Asia?
This agreement, signed in 2018, aimed to enhance international cooperation on migration issues.
What is the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration?
This group of countries agreed to share responsibility for refugee resettlement through a 2015 commitment in response to the Syrian crisis.
What is the European Union?
Since October 1, 1991, refugees from more than _____ countries have resettled in PA.
What is thirty?