Vocabulary
Someone who moves from one country to another, often to find work or join relatives.
What is a migrant?
Now in its 11th year, this refugee crisis remains the world’s largest refugee and displacement crisis of our time. Since its civil war in 2011, families have suffered a brutal conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, torn the nation apart, produced 6.8 million refugees and asylum-seekers, and displaced another 6.7 million people within the country - more than half of the country’s population!
What is the Syrian refugee crisis?
Following an influx of immigrants, the greatest competition for jobs won’t be between immigrants and the native population – it will be with this group of people.
What are other immigrants?
A form of government in which the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation.
What is democratic?
Another word to describe what used to be called a "third world" country.
What is "developing?"
The arrival of a large number of displaced persons who come from a specific country to migrate.
What is mass influx?
The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million African people, following this genocide in which an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 members of the Tutsi minority group were slaughtered within around 100 days.
What is the Rwandan genocide?
With its restrictive immigration policy, this country recognized only 44 foreign nationals as refugees (0.4% of all applicants), whereas the United States accepted 44,614 refugees (29.6%).
What is Japan?
A person who has fled their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights violations there.
What is a refugee?
Another word to describe what used to be called a "first world" country.
What is "developed?"
Someone who is seeking international protection abroad, but hasn’t yet been recognized as a refugee.
What is an asylum-seeker?
Civilians in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger continue to be affected by grave violations of human rights, widespread sexual and gender-based violence, forced recruitment and suicide bombings by this extremist terrorist organization.
What is Boko Haram?
In 2012, these overseas money transfers sent back from developed to developing countries amounted to over $400 billion!
What are remittances?
The 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 UNHCR?
The United Nations estimates this many people were displaced in 2015:
1. 50 million
2. 65 million
3. 75 million
What is 65 million?
The emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country.
What is brain drain?
Following a military crackdown in 2016, the Rohingya Muslim population of this country has faced a genocide in which at least 25,000 people were killed. The crisis forced over a million Rohingya to flee to other countries; Most fled to Bangladesh, resulting in the creation of the world's largest refugee camp.
What is Myanmar?
On top of an already difficult situation with the COVID pandemic and a massive explosion in its capital city, Beirut, this country has the most refugees per 1000 people, with at least 19.5% of the total population registered as refugees.
What is Lebanon?
A word that describes a person or government that enforces strict obedience at the expense of personal freedom.
What is authoritarian?
One of the countries hit hardest by brain drain: at one point, it lost over 85% of its educated population, leaving the 10 million people behind with few educated workers.
What is Haiti?
Groups of people living in a country other than their ancestral homeland.
What is a diaspora?
In 2014, an escalation of violence surged when the Islamic State (ISIS) launched attacks in the northern region of this country. As a result of the conflict, millions of families were forced to flee their homes and half of the country’s infrastructure was destroyed.
What is Iraq?
This country has provided protection to more refugees than any other country in the last ten years... and we're not talking about Thanksgiving dinner!
What is Turkey?
A sum of money sent in payment or as a gift overseas.
What is a remittance?
In 1990, this proportion of political leaders of developing countries were educated abroad.
What is two thirds?