Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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U.S. Refugee Program for 1993
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Administration's Proposed Refugee Admissions Program for Fiscal Year 1993
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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U.S. Refugee Programs for 1994
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Refugee Relief Act of 1953
Author: Frank Ludwig Auerbach
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Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Voices from the Camps
Author: James M. Freeman
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801611
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children�s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the �best interests� of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen�s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801611
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Wave after wave of political and economic refugees poured out of Vietnam beginning in the late 1970s, overwhelming the resources available to receive them. Squalid conditions prevailed in detention centers and camps in Hong Kong and throughout Southeast Asia, where many refugees spent years languishing in poverty, neglect, and abuse while supposedly being protected by an international consortium of caregivers. Voices from the Camps tells the story of the most vulnerable of these refugees: children alone, either orphaned or separated from their families. Combining anthropology and social work with advocacy for unaccompanied children everywhere, James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu present the voices and experiences of Vietnamese refugee children neglected and abused by the system intended to help them. Authorities in countries of first asylum, faced with thousands upon thousands of increasingly frightened, despairing, and angry people, needed to determine on a case-by-case basis whether they should be sent back to Vietnam or be certified as legitimate refugees and allowed to proceed to countries of resettlement. The international community, led by UNHCR, devised a well-intentioned screening system. Unfortunately, as Freeman and Nguyen demonstrate, it failed unaccompanied children. The hardships these children endured are disturbing, but more disturbing is the story of how the governments and agencies that set out to care for them eventually became the children�s tormenters. When Vietnam, after years of refusing to readmit illegal emigrants, reversed its policy, the international community began doing everything it could to force them back to Vietnam. Cutting rations, closing schools, separating children from older relations and other caregivers, relocating them in order to destroy any sense of stability--the authorities employed coercion and effective abuse with distressing ease, all in the name of the �best interests� of the children. While some children eventually managed to construct a decent life in Vietnam or elsewhere, including the United States, all have been scarred by their refugee experience and most are still struggling with the legacy. Freeman and Nguyen�s presentation and analysis of this sobering chapter in recent history is a cautionary tale and a call to action.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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US Department of State Dispatch
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Refugee Resettlement Program
Author: United States. Office of Refugee Resettlement
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Category : Refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Haitian Refugees Forced to Return
Author: Götz-Dietrich Opitz
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825845445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
On September 30, 1991, Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by a coup d'etat. The Haitian political crisis, which was marked by intense international pressure for political negotiation, triggered a stream of refugees bound foremost for the United States. The US Coast Guard began detaining interdicted Haitians at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as forcibly returning a certain number to the Haitian capital. What was the role played by the Haitian diaspora in the US, as the Haitian crisis unfolded until Aristide's reinstatement in October 1994? This study investigates how this process of intervention was shaped by socially constructed categories such as nation, race, ethnicity, and class.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825845445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
On September 30, 1991, Haiti's first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by a coup d'etat. The Haitian political crisis, which was marked by intense international pressure for political negotiation, triggered a stream of refugees bound foremost for the United States. The US Coast Guard began detaining interdicted Haitians at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as forcibly returning a certain number to the Haitian capital. What was the role played by the Haitian diaspora in the US, as the Haitian crisis unfolded until Aristide's reinstatement in October 1994? This study investigates how this process of intervention was shaped by socially constructed categories such as nation, race, ethnicity, and class.
Mass Expulsion in Modern International Law and Practice
Author: Jean-Marie Henckaerts
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478337
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478337
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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