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Refugees, Nomads, IDPs, Migrants Journal: June 21, 2009

By Justin Long ⋅ June 21, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Global trends

• 2008 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons – IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR, end-2008

IDPs and Refugees

• UN: ‘Wars displace record numbers’: 14.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were registered as living under UN care, up from 13.7 million in the previous year.

• Refugees and internally displaced people: about World Vision’s work with IDPs in Congo-Zaire, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Europe

• Czechs Cool to Presence of Workers From Asia: in Eastern Europe, Asian migrants now face competition even for low-paying jobs.

Afghanistan

• IDPs and Deportees (as of 31 Jan 2009)
• Sharp rise in attempted illegal migration to Europe

Australia

• Indonesia to Australia: “Significant” increase in illegal migration

China

• Women Who Flee North Korea For China Suffer

Iran

• The helplessness of Iran’s diaspora: millions of Iranians around the world watch helplessly.

Kenya

• Kenya refugee camp on the brink: famine and unabated fighting in Somalia continues to drive large groups of displaced civilians over the officially closed but porous border with Kenya, most straight into Dadaab refugee camp.

Korea

• North Korean Joblessness: over 11,000 refugees have come to South Korea from the North, but many have had trouble adjusting to life in a free society and most are unemployed. (World Vision Radio)

Pakistan

• Map of IDP camps in Pakistan.
• Host families on brink of their own displacement, World Vision warns: families hosting IDPs are themselves in danger of being displaced.
• Growing number of IDPs move to camps as needs grow
• UN rushing food aid to over 2 million uprooted Pakistanis
• Pakistan: IDP camp populations (as of 09 Jun 2009)
• Pakistan: Who is doing what and where – Humanitarian response in IDPs camps (as of 11 Jun 2009)
• Report highlights plight of war zone refugees (CNN)
• Pakistan’s ‘Invisible Refugees’ Burden Cities and Families’ Hospitality (NYT)

Philippines

• IDPs sell rice rations to survive in Mindanao.

Somalia

• Plea to help IDPs near Kenyan border
• Thousands of refugees flee fighting in Somalia: more than 100,000 displaced as two Islamist militias join forces for a new offensive (CSM)

Sri Lanka

• “Too many people” at huge IDP camp (UN)
• Northern Area – Vanni IDP Camps and Hospitals Information (As of 08 June, 2009)
• End illegal detention of nearly 300,000 displaced Tamils (Human Rights Watch)

Sudan

• Returnees continue to confront challenges at home

Syria

• Living in Exile: Young Iraqi refugees in Syria

Tanzania

• Bush Meat: notes explosion of refugee camps in Tanzania.

Thailand

• Burmese Migrant Workers: migrants to Thailand (fleeing poverty in Burma) are being pushed into the margins by the global economic crisis. (World Vision)
• Thousands of ethnic Karen seek refuge in Thailand (ReliefWeb) and 4,000 Karen flee fighting in Myanmar
• In pictures: refugees streaming over the Thai border from Myanmar.
• Burmese migrant children missing out on education
• Burmese border refugee sites with population figures: May 2009

Yemen

• Over 3,000 displaced as clashes flare up in north

Migrants

• Migrants return to Bangladesh, sent home by the recession.
• USA: WSJ: Smugglers Prey on Immigrants: Phoenix is gaining notoriety as the kidnapping capital of America amid Mexico’s rising drug violence; an increasing number of cases involve undocumented migrants.

South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA: Child migrants walking into trouble: up to 21,000 independent child migrants from outside South Africa are living in the country (UNICEF).

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