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Resettlement Basics

Facts About Refugee Resettlement PDF • Word

How Refugee Resettlement Works HTML • PDF • Word

Refugees' Steps to U.S. Resettlement PDF

Refugee Resettlement: Role of Local Cosponsors PDF • Word

Refugee Resettlement: Health Screening PDF • Word

Manual for Refugee Sponsorship PDF file Download Manual - (w/o inserts) PDF file, 1.25 mg
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Refugee Resettlement: Media Strategy, A Resource for Affiliates and Cosponsors PDF • Word

Refugee Resettlement: Refugees' Rights in Media Interviews PDF • Word

Editor's picks: books and films about refugees

Lead Poisoning Prevention

Lead Poisoning Prevention: A Matter of Life and Death for Refugee Children PDF • Word

Lead Poisoning: Special "Monday" Reprint with CDC Recommendations PDF

Resources on African Refugees

PDF file The Refugee Crisis in Africa: The Churches' Call to Care
A fact sheet on refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa, CWS response, and what you can do.

PDF file The Banyamulenge Tutsi: Survivors of the Gatumba Refugee Camp Massacre

PDF file The 1972 Burundians

Somali Bantu Resettlement: Background Information PDF • Word

More web links on African refugees

Refugees from Asia

PDF file Burmese Refugee Camps in Thailand's Tak Province

PDF file Burmese Muslims

PDF file Karen Refugees from Burma in Tham Hin Camp: A Profile

PDF file Karen Refugees from Burma: A Backgrounder

PDF file Neglected Emergencies: Burma from InterAction's "Monday Developments" magazine, July 31, 2006

Food List for Cosponsors of Refugees from Burma PDF • Word

PDF file UNHCR Fact Sheet on Bhutanese Resettlement to the United States

PowerPoint presentation UNHCR PowerPoint on Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal (3.2 MB)

More web links on Asian refugees

Refugees from Europe

Meskhetian Turk Resettlement: A Brief Overview PDF • Word

Meskhetian Turks Resettlement: Background Information PDF • Word

Meskhetian Turk Resettlement: Q&A PDF • Word

More web links on European refugees

Refugees from the Middle East

PDF file Iraqi Refugees: Questions and Answers
PDF file Iraqi Refugee Resettlement: Talking Points
PDF file Fact Sheet for Iraqi Asylum Seekers

More web links on Middle Eastern refugees

Refugees from the Americas

PDF file Refugee Assistance and Integration in Chile

More web links on refugees from the Americas

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