GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gross Domestic Product, Countercurrent Exchange, Well-Founded Relation
7 Mar 2018
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Defined as: a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of: Afghanistan is the world"s top country of origin for asylum seekers worldwide - ahead of. Iraq and somalia, according to statistics compiled by the u. n. high commissioner for. The number of afghans who are fleeing their country and seeking political asylum abroad has spiked dramatically during the past two years. European countries, which have no unified asylum policy, have deported hundreds of. Afghan refugees and kept many more in detention centers or refugee camps for months. Fewer afghans have applied for asylum in the united states, which immigration officials attributed to the closer proximity of europe and easier access to south asian staging points for reaching australia. They pay human smugglers for passports and visas to pakistan or iran, then on to.
