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„Treasure Hunting“

Flight and Migration

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Q1 : • What does the abbreviation UNHCR stand for? • Tell us the definition and include the official link!!

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• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugeesis a United Nations programme mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of an government or the UN itself

• Link: http://www.unhcr.org

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Q2 :• Find and post the exact definition of: migrant, refugee, asylum seeker • Tell us the link

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• Definition:– A Migrant is someone who moves from one place to another in order to live in another country for

more than a year.

– A refugee is a person who has fled armed conflict or persecution and who is recognised as needing of international protection because it is too dangerous for them to return home.

– An asylum seeker is a person who flees into another country and applies for asylum • Subsidiary protection is an international protection for persons seeking asylum, but do not qualify as

refugees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiary_protection

• Links: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/28/migrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-whats-the-difference

• http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy_research/the_truth_about_asylum/the_facts_about_asylum

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Q3 : • How many refugees died 2015 in the

Mediterranean sea and how many died at 9/11 in New York? Tell us the numbers!• Include two links of your sources!

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• Compare– Refugees died in the Mediterranean sea 2015: 3.500 (2016: 3.742)– The 9/11 (2001) attacks killed 2.996

• Links:– http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2015/8/55e06a5b6/crossings-mediterr

anean-sea-exceed-300000-including-200000-greece.html– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

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Q4 : • Compare the total number of refugees today

worldwide with a simlar number of inhabitants of an European country or any continent of your choice?

• Two links please!

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• Refugees worldwide today: 21,3 million• Links– http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.htm– Romania: 19,5 million• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

– Australia: 24,2 million • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

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Q5 : • What is the 1951 Refugee Convention and

where was it ratified? Post the answer!• Write the link.

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• The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention, is a United Nations multilaterale treaty that defines who is a refugee, and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. (Agreed in Geneva)

• Linkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_status_of_Refugees

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Q6 : • What does Article 1 of the Refugee

Convention specify? • Post the answer and link here.

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• Article 1 defines the term "refugee"• "A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of

race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.."[9]

• Links– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees– http://www.refworld.org/docid/3b20a3914.html– http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/StatusOfRefugees.aspx

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Q7 : • What does Article 33 of the Refugee Convention

say? • Post the answer and link here.

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• Article 33 - Prohibition of expulsion or return ("refoulement")– 1. No Contracting State shall expel or return (" refouler ") a refugee in any manner

whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

– 2. The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, having been convicted by a final judgement of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.

• Linkhttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/StatusOfRefugees.aspx

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Q8 :• What does Dublin III mean? • Post the answer and link here.

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• The Dublin Regulation is an EU law that designates member state responsibility for examining an asylum application.

(first state of entry rule)Dublin III is the version of 2013

• Linkhttps://jrseurope.org/advocacy?LID=834http://safepassage.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Concise-Summary-of-Dublin-III-Regulation-FINAL-logo.pdf

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Q9 :• How often is a refugee allowed to ask for

asylum in Europe? • Post the answer and link here.

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• Once – See: Dublin regulation:• The core principle of the Common European Asylum

System (CEAS) is: one EU member state, one asylum application. The EU is not a region where an individual can submit asylum applications in multiple countries; nor is it a region where member states can ignore a person's application.

• Link:– https://jrseurope.org/advocacy?LID=834

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Q10 :• How many migrants did arrive in Europe this

year?• Post the answer and link here.

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• 357,234 • Link:– http://migration.iom.int/docs/WEEKLY_Flows_Co

mpilation_No28_3_November_2016.pdf– http://migration.iom.int/europe/

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Q11 :• In which 3 countries do most people on the

run find shelter today? • Post the countries and link here.

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• Turkey, Pakistan, Libanon• Link:– http://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.htm