The Long Journey Home: A Home Far Away from Home--Third Country.... .
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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 8Environment. Publisher: IRIN News Service, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Bantu (Tribe) | Emigration and immigration | Forced migration | Land settlement | Refugees | Refugees -- Somali | United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Resettlement is the transfer of refugees to a country that is neither the migrant's country of origin nor the country where he or she sought refuge. Resettling refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs) implies that a state is willing to transport (often for thousands of kilometres), greet, and facilitate the integration of foreigners in its territory. Of the three solutions to forced displacement--repatriation to the home country, local integration in the host country, or resettlement in a third country--the last is the least practised." (IRIN NEWS SERVICE) This article discusses the selective and politically driven nature of resettlement programs in the United States, illustrating "the resettlement of the Somali Bantus to the US" as a "case study of the complexity of the process."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Long Journey Home: A Home Far Away from Home--Third Country..., Feb. 2005; pp. n.p..
"Resettlement is the transfer of refugees to a country that is neither the migrant's country of origin nor the country where he or she sought refuge. Resettling refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs) implies that a state is willing to transport (often for thousands of kilometres), greet, and facilitate the integration of foreigners in its territory. Of the three solutions to forced displacement--repatriation to the home country, local integration in the host country, or resettlement in a third country--the last is the least practised." (IRIN NEWS SERVICE) This article discusses the selective and politically driven nature of resettlement programs in the United States, illustrating "the resettlement of the Somali Bantus to the US" as a "case study of the complexity of the process."
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