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Refugees

A refugee is someone who is fleeing serious danger back home - and we usually do not think about what kind of danger that might be. It could be war, political persecution, famine, economic crisis or natural disasters.

Under international law, however, the word refugee has a very precise meaning: someone who is forced to flee their home and country; who escapes to another country and is given refugee status by the government of the new country. Only the government of a country can decide whether a person should be granted refugee status and they use the 1951 United Nations Convention on refugees.

Links

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European Council on Refugee and Exiles

ECRE is an umbrella organisation of 76 refugee-assisting agencies in 30 countries working towards fair and humane policies for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. Good links to legal services.

EIN

is a voluntary sector organisation specialising in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law via the Internet, particularly in the United Kingdom and Europe.

Refugees on line

This link is a resource for anyone who wants to build communication and links between refugee communities in the UK.   It contains links to a wide range of community organisations and projects across the UK.

Multikulti

This website aims to support citizenship through the delivery of culturally appropriate and accurately translated information in the following areas of welfare law — debt, employment, health, housing, immigration and welfare benefits.

• Welsh Refugee Council

Information on the Welsh Refugee Council can be accessed at this site (Via the Multikulti site). They also have an office in North Wales.

Wales Refugee Council, Trinity House, Trinity Street, Wrexham. LL11 1NL Tel: 01978 363240

Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK

Check out ICAR's Navigation Guides which take subjects of current concern and public interest and provide the user with one stop up to date summaries of facts and figures, issues, research and projects.

WWW Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations

A comprehensive list of every institution and organisation that deals with migration, refugees, ethnicity, and race on the internet.

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)

Since 1933 CARA has helped academic refugees from all over the World. 18 have become Nobel Laureates, 16 have received knighthoods, 71 Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society, 50 Fellows or Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy. They exist to help academic refugees. The aim of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics is to assist university teachers or researchers who have lost their jobs as a result of political, racial or religious discrimination and have become refugees in this country. To help them establish themselves in order that their special knowledge and abilities may continue to be used for the benefit of humankind.

 

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