SOC 2309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Refugee Law
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Canada accepts about 25,00 refugees a year: but 2016 = exception, approx Canada accepts approx 13,000 refugees through the unhcr resettlement program 12,000 refugees come through other channels: sometimes these are people (other channels) that come to the border and ask for asylum. Canada receives about 25,000 claims a year (=in canada refugee protection process) of which max. 12,000 are accepted (12,000 country of asylum class source country class: people have not yet been vetted, max of 12,000, we are not overrun with refugees. Refugee claimants are legally entitled to arrive in canada without papers. Maybe due to their race, gender, sexual orientation. Canada employs a detention policy which is claimed to help combat human satisfy the refugee definition for technical reasons they are not bogus smuggling designated groups of refugees, including children (over 15) can. There is no queue refugees arriving by boat plane, or foot all have the same.
