2006 International Refugee Issue
Volume 27, Number 2 | Summer/Autumn 2006
Traditional Systems of Justice in Refugee Camps:  The Need for Alternatives—Depite awareness of insecurity and lawlessness in refugee camps, practitioners and scholars have given little attention to the issue of access to justice or provision of legal remedies for human rights violations.  Governments and refugee agencies frequently establish camps in emergencies and mass influxes with short-term planning, not regarding justice as an immediate or basic need.  The Sphere Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum...(more )

2005-2006 U.S. Refugee Program
Volume 27, Number 1 | February 2006
The United States continues to act as a global leader in offering resettlement to refugees in urgent need of durable solutions. Focuses of the current program include making more efficient processing systems, including security reviews and medical examinations, increasing the capacity of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to refer refugees in urgent need of resettlement, creation of a Refugee Corps to improve refugee adjudications, and assessing the resettlement needs of longstanding refugee populations...(more)

Anti-Warehousing Work around the World
Volume 26, Special Edition 2005
AUSTRALIA—Advocating and Educating for an End to Refugee Warehousing Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) discussed refugee warehousing as one of three “non-durable solutions” for managing refugees in the international protection framework in its February 2005 “Intake Submission” to the Australian Government. “Non-durable solutions” refers to “those situations where refugees are unable to return to their country of origin, have no effective protection in the country of first asylum and little...(more)

2004 Statistical Issue
Volume 25, Number 9 | December 31, 2004
Although most famous as tourist spots, Tamala seaport, Phuket, and the neighboring areas were also home to thousands of Myanmarese workers, some of whom have fled the Myanmarese government’s persecution of ethnic minorities. The tsunami not only swept away the livelihood of these largely undocumented workers on rubber plantations, fishing, and construction sites, but also the fragile stability they had managed to create. Thailand has deliberately downplayed the devastation here as part of the Government’s overall marginalization of this community. This is a telling example of how disaster aid can by-pass minorities who are out of favor with local governments...(more)

Special Citizenship Issue
Volume 25, Number 7 | October 2004
America is facing one of the largest migration waves in its history. Immigrants are coming to our country in record numbers seeking a better future for themselves and their families. In terms of mere numbers, in no other time in our history have we received so many immigrants. Although the current numbers are still proportionally lower than the numbers of immigrants that came to the country at the turn of the last century, this recent wave of immigrants includes people from throughout the world…(more)

Special Employment Issue
Volume 25, Number 5 | July/August 2004
Jamal Sharif Mor left Somalia fourteen years ago, escaping a civil war that had left his country without a central government and operating by the "law of the jungle," as Jamal put it. Searching for basic personal security, Jamal fled to Kenya where he lived in a refugee camp for five years. "We just ate maize and beans, there was no medicine, people were dying from malnutrition," he remembered. Eventually, after a U.S. Department of State visit to the refugee camp, the United States granted asylum to many Somali refugees, and Jamal came to the United States...(more)

Special Language Issue
Volume 25, Number 4 | June 2004
This issue of Refugee Reports looks at linguistic aspects of refugee life in the United States and abroad, beginning with the Evans Mburu’s article about an ESL curriculum for Somali Bantu refugees in Kenya. Stephanie Wood assesses the impact of English language proficiency in the search for jobs in Fairfax County, Virginia, while David Redd of World Relief discusses the protocols of a multi-agency group in place to provide cultural orientation and ESL to Somali Bantu refugees in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Maricel Quintana-Baker's extensive report on...(more)

Refugee Warehousing Issue
Volume 25, Number 3 | May 2004
World Refugee Survey 2004: Seven Million Without Rights for a Decade or More
USCR Launches Campaign
On May 24, the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) released World Refugee Survey 2004, its annual report of conditions affecting refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. This year’s full-color edition focuses on refugee warehousing—defined as the practice of keeping refugees in protracted situations in camps or segregated settlements, or otherwise deprived of the basic rights guaranteed in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. For ten years or more, more than 7 million of the world’s nearly 12 million refugees...(more)

Health Challenges for Refugees and Immigrants
Volume 25, Number 2 | March/April 2004
This issue of Refugee Reports will focus on refugee health in the United States, beginning with Ariel Burgess’s article about the general healthcare challenges facing refugees and immigrants. John Poon provides a case study of Afghan refugees trying to gain access to necessary health services, while José Quiroga, M.D., discusses the physical and mental health needs of torture victims. Several reports feature the important mental health issues facing newcomers as well as refugee-specific information about vaccinations...(more)

FY 2004 Omnibus Bill Sets Funding for Refugee Protection and Assistance: Includes New Provision on Refugee Resettlement
Volume 25, Number 1 | January/February 2004
On January 23, the president signed an FY 2004 omnibus appropriations bill that includes U.S. funding for refugee protection and assistance this fi scal year (Public Law 108-199). The omnibus bill also includes a little known but important provision entitled, “Report on Admission of Refugees,” which directs the secretary of state to take several measures to enhance the identifi cation and processing of refugees for U.S. admission. While...(more)

2003 Statistical Issue
Volume 24, Number 9 | December 2003
This is our special year-end statistical issue, compiled by Alyson Springer. In addition to tables and graphs on domestic and international refugee programs, this issue includes the index for Refugee Reports, Volume 24. The issue begins with recent developments on refugee news...(more)