The concept of refugee is at once a legal, political, cultural and sociological category. As a consequence, the attribution or label refugee carries with it not only common-sense cultural connotations and legal specificity, but also a great deal of...

The term environmental refugee was coined in the late 1980s by the United Nations Environment Programme and refers to people who are forced to leave their community of origin because the land can no longer support them. Environmental factors such as...

Refugees According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a "refugee" is an individual who owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social...

The 1951 United Nations (UN) Convention on the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as a person who has a well founded fear of persecution by reason of one of five grounds (race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular...

According to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person...

Probably half the overall population was displaced as refugees in September 1999, including around 240,000 East Timorese who fled or were forcibly relocated in September 1999 to West Timor.face=+Superscript; 37face=-Superscript; This represents a significant humanitarian crisis in its own right. At the time...

Peek, V. Lonnie, Jr. Michigan Chronicle 09-20-2005 As we continue to face the greatest natural disaster that this country has had to endure, an ever-increasing menu of issues are surfacing. Catastrophic events will test the ability to handle emergencies. The federal government has...

Jordan and Syria complained Thursday they have been abandoned by the West to deal with the massive burden of more than 2 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the violence in their homeland.Both countries issued urgent calls for help at a conference on Iraqi refugees,...

After more than a decade in refugee camps, Jean Kayobera was ready to come home.He longed to see his house, although he heard it had been taken over by another family during the Central African nation's 12-year civil war. He wanted to see his family,...

This essay defines refugees and is based around the religious background of refugees.

Differentiates between refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers in Australia. Discusses the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and it's 1967 Protocol, to which Australia is a signatory.