“We face a crisis of more than 80 million displaced people suffering all around the world,” President Joe Biden told diplomats at the U.S. State Dept. Friday, setting the stage for an about-face on U.S. refugee policy. While the previous administration imposed travel bans, separated families and built border walls, Biden signed an executive order “to begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program to help meet the unprecedented global need.”
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In countries that host refugees, public sentiment towards migrants tends to be overwhelmingly negative, based largely on misunderstandings and myths.
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Refugees traveling through third countries to the U.S. southern border are now barred from seeking asylum in the United States if they did not apply for, and were denied, protection from persecution or torture where it was available in at least one third country on the way.
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Maximpact to launch a pre-entry English programme for refugees headed to the UK, urges all organisations in the refugee camps to get involved
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Unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States face long dangerous trips without their parents or guardians. Sometimes they travel more than 1,000 miles and cross several borders on foot, by bus, or on top of freight trains. Desperate for a chance at a better life, they face exploitation, violence and death.
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Maximpact has developed a programme to provide language and job placement opportunities to 295 refugees in four regions of the UK.
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Ten thousand people separated by war and persecution have been reunited with their families in the United Kingdom under a British Red Cross and International Organization for Migration family reunification program, the agencies declared last week. Ninety percent of the arrivals have been women and children joining husbands and fathers.
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Refugees and migrants could offer real benefits to their new countries, provided they are given the right opportunities to learn, integrate and contribute.
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Fatima is one of thousands of people who fled the ongoing civil war in Syria with the hopes of building new lives in a new country.
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Accelerating into 2019 with prospects to help migrants integrate in English predominant environments, Maximpact recently received the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy’s support for its Fast Track to Employment Programme for Syrian refugees.
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Migrants and refugees are likely to have good general health, but they can be at risk of falling sick in transition or while staying in receiving countries due to poor living conditions or drastic changes in their lifestyles.
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Eyad and his family fled their home in Syria’s Aleppo countryside in February 2017, during the Bashar al Assad regime’s recapture of the city. “The bombing was unbearable,” he explains. “I saw death with my own eyes. I don’t want my children to witness this.”
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The Fast Track to Employment Programme for refugees and migrants. The programme enables refugees and migrants to become employable quickly, efficiently, and cost- effectively.
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While the United States attempts to limit migration through punitive action at its southern border, the European Union is taking the opposite approach to the flood of migrants from Africa and neighboring countries seeking sanctuary.
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