"aims to successfully resettle and integrate African and non-African
refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers and low-income people" ... "by
providing comprehensive services like cultural orientation, counseling, crisis
intervention, English language skills, citizenship, translation, immigration,
and legal aid and referral services." Based in San Francisco, Calif.
http://www.ncccsf.org/airrc/
"In 1997, 20 agencies serving immigrants and refugees in the Chicago metropolitan area joined together to form CAAELII,..." Partners include Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago. Its newsletters has news of immigrant cases / issues. [KF] http://www.caaelii.org/
"Applicants must satisfy the following: have been employed as a University
Teacher or Researcher in their home country been offered facilities or a
place in a university department..... be a refugee or have applied
for asylum in the U.K." http://www.academic-refugees.org
On the "people, history and cultures of the Somali Bantu.....designed
primarily for service providers and others assisting Somali Bantu refugees
in their new communities in the United States." Includes a bibliography,
resettlement challenges, a language glossary. The principle writers are Daniel
Van Lehman and Omar Eno. From the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center
for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. http://www.culturalorientation.net/bantu/sbtoc.html
Information on the people, land, economy, history, society, education,
values, religion, art, food, festivities, names, language. Has a glossary,
bibliography. From the Cultural Orientation Resource Center, Center for Applied
Linguistics, Washington, D.C. http://www.culturalorientation.net/somali/index.html
Background information on refugees from the Sudan, includes a bibliography
and links to related sites. From the Cultural Orientation Resource Center,
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. http://www.culturalorientation.net/fact_sudan.html
"Learn about the basic needs in a refugee camp: Shelter, food, water,
sanitation, and health care. Hear the personal stories of refugees and relief
workers. Find out how 39 million people are forced to live today." Has
a segment on landmines, extensive curriculum guideson
refugee issues and famine for teachers, printable posters.
From Doctors without Borders (winners of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize.) http://www.refugeecamp.org/
Very fine site. Profiles of internally
displaced persons in over twenty countries (Angola, Burundi,
DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan,
Uganda).
Extensive historical background, education issues, political situation,
protection issues, international response, statistics, graphs, maps,
sources used with links to online sources. From the Norwegian Refugee
Council, Global IDP Project, based in Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.idpproject.org/
"information on educational planning and management, including IIEP's training programmes, research and online publications." "created by UNESCO in 1963 in Paris, France.....supported by grants from
UNESCO and by voluntary contributions from Member States..." Use the Search to
locate full text reports on African education. Based in Paris, France. [KF] http://www.unesco.org/iiep/
Examples of reports - Education and training strategies for disadvantaged
youth in
South Africa, Surviving school: education for refugee children from Rwanda,
1994-1996, Private and community schools in Tanzania, Education
policy formulation in Tanzania.
Programs to assist Africans and other nationals to return to their respective
countries. Provides humanitarian responses to sudden migration flows,
post-emergency return and reintegration programmes, assistance to migrants
on their way to new homes and lives, facilitation of labour migration,
assisted voluntary return for irregular migrants, recruitment of highly
qualified nationals for return to their countries of origin, aid to migrants
in distress, measures to counter trafficking in persons. http://www.iom.int/
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