Newcomers by the Numbers
Melting Pot of Words
How on Earth...?
Refuge for Greatness
100
This is the percentage of the world's refugees that has been admitted to host countries via resettlement.
What is .5%?
(In 2018, this was 1.5 million people)
100
"someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion."
What is a refugee?
100
"no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark" (From "Home" by Warsan Shire)
The three most common reasons a person becomes either a refugee, asylum seeker, or internally displaced person.
What are armed conflict, generalized violence, persecution?
100
Who is Gloria Estefan
(Fled Cuba with her family...)
200
This is the number of countries worldwide that offer resettlement or humanitarian admission
What is 33?
200
This term describes a person who has been forced to flee their home, but hasn't crossed their country's borders.
What is an internally displaced person?
(UNHCR estimates that this applies to about 40 million people - of the 68.5+ million people who are displaced worldwide.)
200
This primary law protecting refugees was established in the aftermath of WWII, and amended in 1967 to make sure that ratifying countries understood that their obligation included ALL refugees, not only those from Europe.
What is the Geneva Convention?
200
Who is co-founder, Sergey Brin (Russian Jewish immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1977)?
300
The number of refugees worldwide.
What is approximately 100 million people?
(In 2018, 1.5 million were identified for resettlement)
300
Alphabet soup. In the context of refugee resettlement, DOS and DHS stand between refugees and a new home country. This is what they stand FOR.
What are Department of State and Department of Homeland Security?
300
If a refugee gets an appointment with UNHCR for a series of face-to-face interviews, they are likely being considered for this process, which also includes extensive background checks that utilize biodata and biometrics.
What is resettlement?
300
“23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington, DC. Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress.”
Who said this?
Who is Ilhan Omer? (Came to the U.S. from Somalia in 1995)
400
In 2018, this many people were forced to flee their homes per day because of conflict and persecution.
a. About 10,000
b. About 20, 000
c. About 40,000
What is about 40,000?
400
Also known as "green card" status, being a permanent legal resident of the U.S. allows you to do this.
What is work?
400
Once a refugee has been identified as candidate for resettlement, the screening process can take anywhere from ____ to _____months (and sometimes longer) depending on a refugee’s region of origin.
What is 18 to 24?
400
"Once a refugee gets a job, that’s the moment they stop being a refugee."
Founder and CEO of Chobani Yogurt, best-selling Greek yogurt in the U.S.
Who is Hamdi Ulukaya? (Kurdish, came from Turkey)