Refugee in sentence

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But she was also full of hope, because she was in love with a fellow Syrian refugee named Bassem.

So people continue to flee into neighboring countries, and we build refugee camps for them in the desert.

A refugee's stay is supposed to be temporary.

So Doaa, the 19-year-old refugee who was terrified of the water, who couldn't swim, found herself in charge of two little baby kids.

This was from Masa's uncle, a Syrian refugee who had made it to Sweden with his family and also Masa's older sister.

One thing is for sure, that no refugee would be on those dangerous boats if they could thrive where they are.

Visitors were offered the opportunity to talk directly to a refugee who was or had been imprisoned in a specific detention facility and engage in a personal conversation.

We have also established communication systems in remote refugee centers in Switzerland and Greece.

And I really wanted to do something about Syrian refugee kids, because children have been the worst affected by the Syrian civil war.

I sent a team to the border of Iraq to record material at refugee camps, basically an area I wouldn't send a team now, as that's where ISIS is really operating.

AG: Well, I think, basically, what triggered this huge increase was the Syrian refugee group.

Now, in Lebanon, we have one refugee per three Lebanese.

And they have, as a policy, they call the "people to people" policy that every refugee should be received.

And my deep belief is that it was not the refugee movement that triggered terrorism.

We don't claim to have the answers, but we started experimenting with different discussions about very divisive issues, such as race, gun control, the refugee debate, relationship between Islam and terrorism.

It defines a refugee as someone who is outside their country of nationality, and is unable to return to their home country because of well-founded fears of being persecuted.

Each refugee's story is different, and many must undergo dangerous journeys with uncertain outcomes.

Most refugee journeys are long and perilous with limited access to shelter, water, or food.

While more than half the world's refugees are in cities, sometimes the first stop for a person fleeing conflict is a refugee camp, usually run by the United Nations Refugee Agency or local governments.

Refugee camps are intended to be temporary structures, offering short-term shelter until inhabitants can safely return home, be integrated to the host country, or resettle in another country.

At this point, they are an asylum seeker and not officially recognized as a refugee until the application has been accepted.

While countries by and large agree on one definition of refugee, every host country is responsible for examining all requests for asylum and deciding whether applicants can be granted the status of refugee.

In addition, far too many refugee children are out of school due to lack of funding for education programs.

Or the Syrian refugee who dared show her love for her new country by building an app to help Americans get to the polls.

I believe it's because our politicians lack a vision, a vision for how to adapt an international refugee system created over 50 years ago for a changing and globalized world.

So the modern refugee regime was created in the aftermath of the Second World War by these guys.

How does the refugee regime actually work?

But not from a top-down institutional perspective, rather from the perspective of a refugee.

In the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, you can hear the shells across the border in Syria at nighttime.

For refugees, that choice is the global refugee regime today.

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