SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Gender Mainstreaming, 18 Months, Canada Women'S National Soccer Team
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How is the process of resettlement different for women and men who are in flight? . Refugee is someone who is in flight. Informal someone who has had to flee: definition doesn"t ask if they are a genuine refugee have to meet the requirements of un commission"s definition. Administrative including internally displaced persons, refugees claimants, Formal legalistic 1951 un convention (plausible reason for fearing persecution based on membership in certain religious, ethnic/ racial groups state fails to protect). Statistics are volatile because the camps and areas around it are subject to huge population movement. Particularly the case when you have people fleeing because there is civil war going on in their country. 3 options: preferred solution by un, voluntary repatriation (eg return, people do want to go home, however, the conditions are unstable, eg origin host, prefer a flow back. As a result, many afghans are located in pakistan.
