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REFUGEES ARE MORE LIKELY

TO BE CONFRONTED WITH LOW WAGES AND POVERTY MOST EARN ONLY 10 PER CENT OF INDIGENOUS DUTCH HOUSEHOLDS, EUR

850 OLESS.

MORE THAN 75 % OF THE REFUGEES

INTERVIEWED IN 2009 HAD GOOD PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH

DUTCH PEOPLE

REFUGEES ARE SURVIVORS. THEIR COURAGE, INGENUITY AND CREATIVITY ARE

QUALITIES WHICH WE VALUE IN THE

NETHERLANDS

FROM 2008 TO 2009 THERE WAS AS

89 PER CENT INCREASE IN ASYLUM CASES IN THE NETHERLANDS

EACH YEAR SOME 20,000

IRREGULAR MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ARE DETAINED IN THE

NETHERLANDS

DUTCH DETENTION

PRACTICES HAVE BEEN AMONG THE MOST

CONTROVERSIAL IN EUROPE.BECAUSE OF

USING BOATS AS DETENTION SITES

IN THE NETHERLANDS THE DURATION OF THE DETENTION HAS A MAXIMUM OF SIX

MONTHS, BUT THIS CAN BE EXTENDED TO 18

MONTHS

THE NETHERLANDS IS

REVIEWING DETAINING MIGRANT CHILDREN

WITH THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL AS

UNACCOMPANIED MINORS

AS OF 2010 THE MINISTRY OF

JUSTICE OFFICIALLY MAINTAINED SIX

IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRES WITH A TOTAL

CAPACITY OF 2,757

AS OF 2005, THE NETHERLANDS HAD AN

ESTIMATED UNDOCUMENTED POPULATION OF

62,000-114,000, 85% MEN

SOME 10% OF THE ASYLUM

SEEKERS GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS IN THE NETHERLANDS BETWEEN

1998 AND 2008 HAVE MOVED ON TO A THIRD

COUNTRY

IN 2009, AN

ESTIMATED 377,200 ASYLUM APPLICATIONS

WERE RECORDED IN THE 44 EUROPEAN AND

NON-EUROPEANCOUNTRIES

IRAQ REMAINS THE TOP COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF THE

ASYLUM APPLICANTS AFGHANS AND SOMALIS ARE THE 2ND AND 3RD

GROUPS AS CONDITIONS GET

WORSE

AS A REGION, EUROPE RECEIVED 75 PERCENT OF ALL

ASYLUM APPLICATIONS ALTHOUGH THE UNITED STATES REMAINED THE

SINGLE LARGEST RECIPIENT COUNTRY

FROM 2008 UNTIL 2011 THE

DUTCH QUOTA FOR NEW REFUGEE

RESETTLEMENT IS 2,000 PEOPLE.

AN ESTIMATED 200 MILLION

PEOPLE LIVE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY IN WHICH

THEY WERE BORN – ABOUT 3% OF THE

GLOBAL POPULATION OF 6.5 BILLION

THERE ARE AN ESTIMATED 14.2

MILLION REFUGEES IN THE WORLD, ROUGHLY 0.21% OF THE WORLD’S

POPULATION

THE MAJORITY OF REFUGEES AND

IDPS ARE IN ASIA AND AFRICA, WHICH

BETWEEN THEM HOST A TOTAL OF 9.2 MILLION REFUGEES AND 18.1

MILLION IDPS

UNDER THE 1951 UN REFUGEE

CONVENTION PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO

APPLY FOR PROTECTION IN THE NETHERLANDS

A REFUGEE IS SOMEONE WHO HAS FLED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY SEEKING

PROTECTION FROM WAR OR PERSECUTION

AN ASYLUM SEEKER IS A

PERSON WHO IS SEEKING TO BE

RECOGNIZED AS A REFUGEE, BUT IS NOT

OFFICIAL YET

TANZANIA HOSTS ONE REFUGEE FOR

EVERY 76 TANZANIAN PEOPLE (1:76)

iN 2009 THERE WERE OVER 70

THOUSAND REFUGEES LIVING IN THE

NETHERLANDS

IN A REFUGEE CAMP IN SUDAN LIKE

KAKUMA ON AVERAGE A PERSON GETS 5L OF

WATER A DAY.

OUT OF THE 10,000 BHUTANESE REFUGEES

THE NETHERLANDS TOOK 33 LAST YEAR

AT THE DUTCH COUNCIL FOR

REFUGEES ALMOST 9,000 VOLUNTEERS

WORK VERY HARD FOR REFUGEES, ON A DAILY

BASIS

THE GENERAL PARDON THAT WAS

PASSED IN 2001 GAVE 26,000 ASYLUM SEEKERS

THE RIGHT TO STAY IN THE NETHERLANDS

THE COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES

WORKS TO PROVIDESUCH PROTECTION,

BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.

FINDING A JOB AS A REFUGEES VERY DIFFICULT. NEARLY 40% OF

AFGHANIS, IRAQIS, AND SOMALIS WERE

UNEMPLOYED IN 2003

IN 2003, 27% OF THE REFUGEES

WITH WORK WERE IN TEMPORARY

EMPLOYMENT. FOR A NATIVE DUTCH PERSON,

THIS FIGURE IS 20% LOWER.



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Eccentric and brilliant scientist. Best know for his general theory of relativity

Einstein as a Jew was forced to �ee when he was charged of treason against the Third Reich in Germany when the Nazis came to power. He sought �ed to America, where he used his in�uence and wealth to obtain visas for others.

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Musician and Rasta-farian. In 1976 a gunman, shot Marley, his wife and his

manager in a politically motivated attack. Despite this Marley performed two nights later for the Jamaican Prime minister at “Smile Jamaica” with a bullet lodged in his arm. When asked why he performed, he replied: "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?”

BOB MARLEY THE DALAI LAMA

Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet.

He was enthroned at the age of four but his rule was brief. In 1959 there was a major uprising in Tibet and it was suspected that the Chinese government may have been planning to kill him. He �ed to India and 80,000 of his followers joined him. He has been in exile ever since.

Psychiatrist and forefather of psychoanalysis. One year he was receiving

Germany’s highest honour the Gothe Prize and the next his books were being burned.

Freud had lived in Vienna for 79 years and was 84 years old when he was forced to �ee to London. He paid a substantial bribe to leave his own home.

Is a regular guy, he arrived in the Netherlands after Escaping the war in

Ethiopia 13 years ago. Like 23,000 others he was recently pardoned by the government to stay here in Holland. He spent many years just waiting to �nd out his future. Today he is working with other refugees in his community as part of the furniture recycling scheme. He has a wife and two children.

MARLENE DIETRICHWas a German actress and singer. She found fame through her silent �lms, but left

Germany during WW2 after being too outspoken. She said in an interview that “The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.” And was so angered by what was going on she Collaborated with the CIA to create musical propaganda against Germany and toured to raise funds for the US.

Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was a Dutch politician and diplomat, Nobel prize

recipient. He was the �rst United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He studied law and was a journalist. As the editor of De Telegraaf he was �red after insulting Adolf Hitler upon his election. During WW2 he was the editor in chief of the resistance newspaper Het Parool In 1944 he �ed to London and was the minister of justice in exile.

RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ

Is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the K'iche' Maya ethnic group.

Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War. Her biography written at age 23. I, Rigobera Menchu won her the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.

Taida Pasić, was born in Kosovo and her family �ed Kosovo in 1999 to the

Netherlands. Taida grew up in the Netherlands but, in 2005 her family accepted a payment to be resettled. Taida returned to the Netherlands in 2006 on a tourist visa, to complete her �nal months of high school. She was arrested by immigration police while at school in March 2006. Pasić left the Netherlands for Bosnia, and took her exams in the Dutch embassy in Sarajevo.

TAIDA

Madeleine Albright was the United States' �rst female Secretary of State and the

highest-ranking woman in the history of the US government.She was born Marie Jana Korbelova. Her family had to �ee Czechoslovakia during both the WW2 and the Communist takeover. They immigrated to the United States in 1948. Albright's grandparents on both sides, died in concentration camps during WW2.

MADELEINE Arrived in the Netherlands with a higher education and can speak in eight

di�erent languages.

Almost immediately he found that many of the other refugees in his new home country needed quite a bit of help. Communication for many was di�cult and stressful. He has been working and volunteering with the Vluchteling Werk network ever since.

AZIZ Prem Shivram Shaw Radhakishun is a Dutch lawyer, columnist ,radio and

television personality of Surinamese descent.

He and his mother �ed through French Guyana, and sought refuge in the Netherlands. Since April 2009 he has a talk show on BNR News Radio.He is also the presenter of the program 'De herkansing'.

PREM

Is a Russian-born American singer- songwriter and pianist. The family left

the Soviet Union in 1989, when Regina was 9, during the period of Perestroika, when Jewish/Soviet citizens were permitted to emigrate. Spektor is completely �uent in Russian and reads Hebrew, “I’m very connected to the language and the culture.”

REGINA SPEKTOR Was forced to �ee Tibet after she had been incarcerated for over a year because

she was an activist. She had to leave her husband and children behind. After she arrived in the Netherlands she was in all sorts of detention centres and refugee housing for 5 years until her stay was approved. She is now hoping to reunite with her family.

DOLMAMathangi Arulpra-gasam is a singer, rapper artist and Tamil national. Although

born in England she grew up in Sri Lanka in the middle of the Civil War. Her father was involved in politics and as the situa-tion escalated she was forced to �ee with her mother and brother leaving her father behind. M.I.A.’s song lyrics are often infused with politics and perhaps that's what makes them popular internationally.

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Netherlands. Taida grew up in the Netherlands but, in 2005 her family accepted a payment to be resettled. Taida returned to the Netherlands in 2006 on a tourist visa, to complete her �nal months of high school. She was arrested by immigration police while at school in March 2006. Pasić left the Netherlands for Bosnia, and took her exams in the Dutch embassy in Sarajevo.

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