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Deftions o "reugee" v. "immigrant"

Why better/ worse?

Homeland Security:

eugee

! ersons outside country o nationality! #nable/unwilling to return due to well!ounded ear o ersecution $not

delusional%! &ust be based on race' religion' nationality' ( membershi to secifc grou

or olitical oinion $doesn)t include abuse' or leaving or reasons o lac* o

rights necessarily ( what about countries where laws are e+ually oressive

to all, -: child marriage%! l w/o nationalities( outside o last country o long term residence! 0eilings or certain areas dtm)d by resident w/ congress as consult! ossible to become ermanent residence ater 1 year o lawul residence

$ecludes many illegal immigrants%

htt://www.dhs.gov/defnition!terms

Defnition o reugee is inade+uate or current atterns o migration in armed

con2icts

! &igration due to civil unrest $3ibyan crisis orcing mvnt to -gyt and 4unisia%'

oints out the defnition o reugee is based on individuals and doesn)t allow

or larger grous! 5maybe that)s good or the long term' it orces change to occur on a social

level and legal level in regards to the country l are 2eeing rom' down side

is that in the short term it leaves 2eeing grous in an untenable situation that

can)t and shouldn)t be ignored, and it raises the +uestion o how should

resources be allocated to account or the dislaced in their dwelling6! aises the +uestion o level o healthcare or internally dislaced eole

receive vs eternally dislacedBMJ 2011;343:d7390

4oward a new defnition o 7reugee): is the 1891 convention out o date?

! -volved rom 4he treaty o ersailes and the 3eague o ;ations attemt to

rotect individuals in other allied countries the modern day o

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current defnitions. And w/current limits on reugees' this creates a

roblem or true reugees.%! -nvironmental reugees not necessarily considered reugees( current laws

o $Health issues involved due to trauma and inection%-ur B 4rauma -merg Surg $C11% EF:G1@GG

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! &igrants' esecially economic migrants' choose to move in order to imrove

the uture rosects o themselves and their amilies

htt://www.unhcr.org/ages/8cEGGc1C9.html

&y views based on the readings:

! immigrant vs reugee @ want/ability vs need! aises +uestions o in redefning defnitions o both would we ris* hamering

the movement/ access to healthcare o immigrants who aren)t reugees?! Want to redefne to allow or reugees who have a need due to environmental

issues as well as social and olitical. &ay want to wor* towards allowing or ameans or them to return to their own country.

! aises concerns with issues o acculturation and loss o identity which could

be a threat to mental health.! Should internally dislaced individuals also beneft rom the same rotections

as eternally dislaced individuals?

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