ICMCEUROPE WelcometoEurope.pdf (5.89 MB)

ICMC – A Continued Commitment to Resettlement
With a worldwide membership, staff and operations, and working with migrants and
refugees in more than 40 countries, the International Catholic Migration Commission
(ICMC) serves and protects uprooted people – refugees, internally displaced persons and
migrants – regardless of faith, race, ethnicity or nationality. Since its creation in 1951, ICMC
has identified and accompanied over one million refugees for resettlement. Through its
Turkey and Lebanon offices, the ICMC Refugee Support Centre (RSC) processes refugees
for resettlement to the United States. Additionally, ICMC provides expert resettlement
personnel through the ICMC-UNHCR Resettlement Deployment Scheme to support
UNHCR resettlement activities in field offices. In 2012 alone, ICMC deployees put forward
36,880 refugees for resettlement consideration, contributing significantly to the total
of 74,839 persons submitted by UNHCR to resettlement countries that year. The ICMC
Europe office in Brussels works to promote resettlement in Europe and, with its partners
IOM and UNHCR, develops the European Resettlement Network (www.resettlement.eu)
to build European resettlement capacity and expertise. Via the Resettlement Saves Lives
Campaign, ICMC Europe also advocates for 20,000 resettlement places to be offered by
Europe each year by 2020.In order to engage local actors in resettlement, ICMC Europe is
currently implementing the SHARE project, building a European resettlement network of
cities, regions and civil society partners committed to refugee protection and integration.
Principal authors: Rachel Westerby, City Coordinator (ICMC Europe) and Sophie Ngo-Diep,
Policy & Project Development Officer (ICMC Europe)
Together with: Petra Hueck, Head of Office (ICMC Europe) and Salomé Phillmann, independent
researcher
Editor: Rachel Westerby
Concept & Layout: Crossmark, Belgium – www.crossmark.be
Printed by: édition & imprimerie, Belgium - www.edimp.be
Date of publication: July 2013
Cover photos from top to bottom and from left to right:
© Iraq/Syrian refugee children play on playground equipment amid refugee families’ tents in Domiz refugee
camp in the Kurdistan region of Iraq/UNHCR/2013
© Tunisia / Somali refugee Mohammed receives from UNHCR the good news that he has been accepted for
resettlement to the US/ UNHCR/R. Nuri/ April 2012
© Nepal/Bhutanese refugees attend a cultural orientation class conducted by IOM/IOM/Kari Collins/2009
© Tunisia/IOM arranges a charter flight from Djerba to Hannover on behalf of the German government for the
refugees/IOM/2012
The Netherlands/ Wommels (North Netherlands) is home to two Bhutanese families. The children are going to
the local primary school/UNHCR/P.de Ruiter/2011
© UK/An Ethiopian Oromo family resettled to Brighton, UK/UNHCR/H.Davies/2007