Talk:Refugee
From Academic Kids
The following 2 paragraphs should be moved to one of the Arab-Israeli conflict articles.
- I moved it out and added a pointer to Palestinian refugee. -- zero 4 Aug 2003.
The United Nations created a second definition of the term "refugee" in regards to Palestinian Arabs. For this group only, an Arab is officially considered a Palestinian refugee even if that person had recently immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine in the last two years before 1948. By this definition, some of the Palestinians refugees actually were never Palestinians, but in fact were Arabs from outside Palestine. Many Israelis consider this redefinition of the term to be an act of anti-Zionism, aimed at weakening the legitimacy of the State of Israel.
The Palestinians claim that the question of the Palestinian refugees is one of the world's largest and most enduring refugee disasters (made such, as Israel claims, by Arab countries' own policies). They claim further that the bulk of Palestinian refugees have been inhabitants of Palestine for many generations (to which some experts disagree), and the decision to consider Palestinians as any inhabitants since 1946 is purely administrative. Discussions on granting Palestinians right of return have yet to reach a definite conclusion, although as the introduction of millions of refugees is likely to lead to the destruction of Israel, it is unlikely that a full-scale return will take place.
The above 2 paragraphs describe not a typical case, but one of the most thorny examples, rife with dispute. Let's add an easier-to-swallow example, of a few hundred thousand or more people fleeing a battle between 2 countries by going to a neighboring country. --Ed Poor
For one reason or othert the UN convention appears to be twice quoted more or less verbatim. I have edited this. Refdoc 01:48, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Message from Kenyan boy
The following was inserted into Refugee today. Think it is genuine? - Borofkin 22:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
my name is mahad iam somali boy iam 14 years old now iam refugee in kenya so that ineed help my file no :ns 006973 my email .buraale_5@hotmail.com or mahadabdi12@hotmail.com unhcr of kenya they sneer for me every day after that i don't have any prents and any relative now iam ready for to die becouse this life is had life so that i whant to die after that if any person to say tome let us go and live with my home iam ready for that becouse iam soltary boy . iam agony boy. UNHCR BRANCH OFFICE FOR KENYA they can help me but they don;t need to help me so that iam requesting to regard my request . now i have two mens of my relative but ididnot see in the past 5 years now they live in america . i see one time in to the email then they sended me on aletter then i did not see but they gived me there telephone. maxamed ceynab is my uncle . maxamed ali is my brother .
6127224238 maxamed ceynab
4023169724 maxamed ali
sincerly boy
thenk you
Asylum_Seeker
I have removed the "Asylum Seeker" option from the "See Also" list, as there is already a page for "Asylum seeker" which redirects here.
