Services to help you settle into your community. Services that are provided to you include:
Services to help you settle into your community. Services that are provided to you include:
The terms “refugee”, “asylum seeker” and “migrant” are used to describe people who are on the move, who have left their countries and have crossed borders.
The terms “migrant” and “refugee” are often used interchangeably but it is important to distinguish between them as there is a legal difference.
Refugees are people who
The terms “refugee”, “asylum seeker” and “migrant” are used to describe people who are on the move, who have left their countries and have crossed borders.
The terms “migrant” and “refugee” are often used interchangeably but it is important to distinguish between them as there is a legal difference.
Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country.
Refugees are defined and protected in international law. The 1951 Refugee Convention is a key legal document and defines a refugee as:
“someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”
An asylum seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but who has not yet been legally recognized as a refugee and is waiting to receive a decision on their asylum claim. Seeking asylum is a human right. This means everyone should be allowed to enter another country to seek asylum.
There is no internationally accepted legal definition of a migrant. Like most agencies and social service organizations, HELLO Community Services understands migrants to be people staying outside their country of origin, who are not asylum seekers or refugees.
Some migrants leave their country because they want to work, study or join family. Others feel they must leave because of poverty, gang violence, natural disasters or other serious circumstances that exist there.
The majority of the world’s refugees - 73% last year - flee to countries neighbouring their country of origin.
The largest refugee-hosting country is Turkey with 3.8 million refugees. The majority of refugees in Turkey are from Afghanistan, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Somalia. Many of them have been there for years with limited acces
The majority of the world’s refugees - 73% last year - flee to countries neighbouring their country of origin.
The largest refugee-hosting country is Turkey with 3.8 million refugees. The majority of refugees in Turkey are from Afghanistan, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Somalia. Many of them have been there for years with limited access to work and often separated from their families.
Poland has become the world's second-largest refugee-hosting country in the world as 2 million people have now fled across the border from Ukraine.
Colombia has the third-largest refugee population with more than 1.7 million, many of whom are Venezuelans who’ve fled across the border.
Other countries with large refugee populations include Uganda, Pakistan, and Germany.
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