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• Of What Meaning, Canadian?

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 471
  There’s a new guide for new Canadians, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship .  It’s a change from the document that used to be handed out.  It’s more demanding, and, arguably, more political. The 62-page guidebook, years in the making, replaces the “anemic, slim, ...
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• Move along, nothing to see in welcoming Ft. Morgan, CO

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 509
  I had to laugh when I saw this article (Morgan ahead of others in refugee resettlement) yesterday from Ft. Morgan, CO all about how great everything is with the booming Muslim population in that “welcoming” town.  If readers did not know that a refugee woman was murdered there a week ago today, one would ...
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• Burmas Rohingyas swap suppression for squalor

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  As one of Burmas Rohingya 45yearold Manjurul Islam endured a lifetime of oppression before he finally fled the country for a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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• Grassroots Co-ordinator – Women for Refugee Women – 23rd November 2009

  
  womensgrid — Authority: 137
  * Contract: Permanent * Hours: Part Time * Salary: £23,000 pro rata (14 hours) Women for Refugee Women (WRW) is a small charity that raises awareness of injustices experienced by women who seek refuge in the UK. We carry out effective media and lobbying work in partnership with other organisations, and also ...
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• Publications: Eligibility/Kosovo, Human Trafficking, Refugees/Wales, Returnees/Burundi, Unacc. Minors

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 129
  A Note on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children (ImmigrationProf Blog, Nov. 2009) [text]Refugees Living in Wales: A Survey of Skills, Experiences and Barriers to Inclusion. Executive Summary (Swansea University et al., Sept. 2009) [text]Slavery & the Trafficking of Women (IntLawGrrls Blog, Nov. 2009) [text]"Two People ...
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• War’s ‘Lost Boy’ grows up to graduate from college

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Kuol Dut was six when the swirling chaos of war churned through his village. He recalls playing in a field as neighbors raced toward him, screaming about militias attacking their homes. Even a boy of Kuol’s age knew that militias and soldiers slaughtered men, women and children in the ...
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• Smell of appeasement surrounds asylum-seeker deal

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Amanda Hodge; 12/11/09; (3 Items)The Australian government came to Sri Lanka this week bearing gifts in the hope of winning co-operation in its bid to reduce asylum-seeker numbers. One was material: $11 million towards de-mining the former northern conflict zone and resettling about 250,000 civilians still held behind ...
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• Princeton To Teach Class On Books Written By Models [Higher Learning]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  So this ridiculously expensive Ivy League university of which Im sure youve heard is offering a class in model memoirs . The course, being taught next spring by Professor Wendy Belcher , is offered through the Comparative Literature and African-American Studies departments. Its full title is " Model Memoirs : The ...
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• Citizenship Foundation project

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 145
  InterACT is a new Citizenship Foundation project which will be running in communities across the UK over the next three years. The project is based on the Citizenship Foundation’s award winning Youth Act model. It aims to support groups of 16-25 year old refugees and asylum seekers to come together with locally ...
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• USCCB lobbied hard for Pelosi Health Care bill

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 509
  Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media lines up some of the reasons why the US Conference of Catholic Bishops helped push the Pelosi/Obama so-called health reform bill over the finish line late Saturday night and wonders where is the separation of church and state. Kincaid explains and suggests some reasons why the ...
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• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  The war in Iraq hits home for many people in Tennessee, especially during the holidays. For a group of Iraqis in Knoxville, the war ultimately forced them seek refuge in the United States where they now celebrate American holidays. Sunday afternoon, several local families hosted a Thanksgiving party at Jubilee Farms ...
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• Rapid settlement for Oceanic Viking refugees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Paul Maley & Stephen Fitzpatrick; 10/11/09; (3 Items)The 78 asylum-seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking have been promised rapid resettlement in Australia, Canada or New Zealand but have refused to leave the Customs vessel if it means going back into immigration detention. As Foreign Minister Stephen Smith held talks ...
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• Why North Koreans Risk Their Lives Daily for Liberty, and The Chance of a Better Future

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  For those of us who live in our relatively safe and comfortable democratic society’s, our most pressing concerns might be finding employment, obtaining a mortgage for a home, or worrying about credit card debt.  But if you are unlucky enough to be a citizen of North Korea, you will not be concerned with any of ...
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• More on Somali murder in Ft. Morgan: victim identified, sort of

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 509
  The Ft. Morgan Times reported earlier today that the woman murdered by a fellow Somali immigrant last week is 27-year-old Warsen Aden Abdi.   When no pre-death records could be found, the only thing the Coroner’s office had to go on is the say-so of family members.     That is B.S.!    Unless she ...
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• Born free

  
  Ciara Leeming — Authority: 410
  As anyone who looks at this blog may know, Ive spent some time over the past few months getting to know Sofia, an African lady whose asylum claim was turned down by the Home Office earlier this year. She is currently destitute and survives with the support of charities in Manchester. Ive put together a short piece ...
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• Ft. Morgan Update: Gag order lifted in Somali murder case

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 509
  This is a post to update last week’s reports, here and here , from “welcoming” Ft. Morgan, CO, about the murder of a young refugee woman by a Somali man.  Although earlier stories dance around the word ‘Somali,’ referring to the alleged murderer and victim as being from East Africa, it sure appears from ...
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• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le salutes two Vietnamese officers during a welcoming ceremony in Danang.  DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his family’s side lost the Vietnam War, 5-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - ...
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• Australia tackles refugee source

  
  Recording — Authority: 514
  Australias foreign minister visits Sri Lanka to try to tackle the source of a growing refugee problem.
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• EUTHANASIA BILL VOTE PUSHED BACK BY LALONDE TO DECEMBER 2

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 127
  A third reading and vote on a private member’s bill endorsing euthanasia in Canada has been postponed by its author until at least December 2, if not later. Francine Lalonde, a Bloc Quebecois MP, has no hope of seeing the bill passed, which is a very good thing. But she is determined to keep the issue alive ...
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• Comment worth noting: US State Department, what is going on in Bowling Green?

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 509
  Comments worth noting is a category we set up for comments (usually to older posts)that might be lost to most readers unless we showcased them here. We just received this shocking information from a friend of a Burmese Karen refugee resettled recently in Bowling Green, KY.  The comment came in response to my post on ...
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