Uprooted people: a global challenge to churches

Article Abstract:

The World Council of Churches' (WCC) Central Committee has designated 1997 as the Ecumenical Year of Churches in Solidarity with Uprooted People. The committee urges churches and ecumenical groups worldwide to promote and engage in activities that would help the plight of refugees, migrants and displaced people. The WCC also published a document entitled 'The Resource Book - A Moment to Choose: Risking to be with Uprooted People' in Feb 1997 to serve as a resource for these activities.

Social policy, World Council of Churches

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Richmond's refugees: understanding the interaction between refugees and their new communities

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A project in Richmond, VA, that started in 1995 aims to understand the interaction between refugees and their communities through a series of interviews. The project revealed significant changes in the lives of people involved in refugee resettlement as well as the social and cultural makeup of Richmond. Information from this project may provide useful theoretical and practical effects in areas dealing with problems of immigrants and refugees.

Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, Refugee camps

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Waves of refugees

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The US has been highly criticized for repatriating many Haitian refugees while accepting most Cubans as permanent citizens. However, the US maintains that the Cubans are given preference over the Haitians because they are escaping from a communist country while the other group seek asylum for economic reasons. The refugees reach the US by relying on the Gulf Stream that forms in the Western Carribean and flows around both coasts of Florida.

Laws, regulations and rules, Refugees, Cuban, Cuban refugees, Refugees, Haitian, Haitian refugees

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