of the protection of that country or to return there, for fear of persecution”
- The 1951 Convention on Refugees
Asylum seekers:
those seeking refugee status in another country
Asylum seekers’ right to seek asylum but no obligation on states to provide it.
Internally displaced persons:
those forced to flee their homes but not crossed an international border.
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about one-tenth of its farmland, to the Soviet Union. The experiences of the depression and the war years persuaded the Finns to secure independent food supplies to prevent shortages in future conflicts.
After the war, the first challenge was to resettle displaced farmers. Most refugee farmers were given farms that included some buildings and land that had already been in production, but
Salva and Nya, in different parts of Sudan.
Salva, an 11-year-old boy from a small village, is forced to flee when war breaks out in his country in the mid-1980s. He embarks on a perilous journey to Ethiopia, encountering deadly obstacles along the way. Salva eventually becomes a refugee in Kenya, where he stays in a refugee camp for several years before he is resettled in the United States.
Of the seven species of marine turtles in the world five are found here. Four are 'endangered' and one 'threatened'. Of course, it would be absurd to worry about what war could do to animal species without also setting out the worst likely effects of all: the deaths, injuries, loss and grief the war will cause to civilians. The destruction of communities and the displacement of populations are ju
Limón : the first documented use of the term to 1911
The present : a wide range of meanings
Chicano Civil Rights Movement in 1960s
Deal with various issues
ex) farm workers' rights, education, voting and political rights
Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed negative ethnic stereotypes of
Mexicans in mass media and
the American consciousness.