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IDP returnees in Sri Lankasetting up makeshift housesuntil supplies arrive forpermanent construction.20 years. Globally, an estimated 9 millionrefugees have returned home overthe past 10 years, most of them withUNHCR assistance.The main countries of return in2010 included Afghanistan (118,000),Iraq (28,900), the Democratic Republicof the Congo (16,600), Rwanda (10,900),Sudan (7,100), and Sri Lanka (5,100). Thelargest number of refugee departuresfor voluntary repatriation was reportedby Pakistan (109,400), the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo (14,500), and theIslamic Republic of Iran (10,200).Fig. 8 Refugee returns | 2001-20102.52.01.51.00.50(in millions)Afghanistan continued to be themain country of return, with 118,000registered returns during the year andtwice as many as last year (57,600). Levelsin 2009 were the lowest since start ofthe large-scale refugee return in 2002.Overall, close to 5.5 million Afghan refugees– or roughly one-fifth of Afghanistan’spopulation – have returned homesince 2002. As part of its monitoring responsibilities,UNHCR conducts interviewswith returning Afghans to assessthe reasons for return. In 2010, the mostoften-cited factors have been economic‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10concerns, difficulties in Pakistan, andlocal improvements in security in someparts of Afghanistan.ResettlementResettlement can provide protectionto refugees when their lives, liberty,safety, health or other fundamental humanrights are at risk in their country ofasylum. As such, it is a vital protectiontool and an international responsibilitysharingmechanism, but also can be akey element in comprehensive solutionstrategies.Only a small number of nations offerresettlement programmes, acceptingrefugees in quotas on an annual basis.The number of resettlement placesavailable has neither kept pace withglobal resettlement needs, nor withincreased submissions by UNHCR. In2010, UNHCR’s multi-year projectionswere that 747,000 resettlement placeswere needed. In 2011, this figure was increasedto 805,000, a record high. However,annual quotas offered by Stateshave remained largely unchanged, at80,000 places available globally.The Office’s response to the gap betweenneeds and places available wasthreefold: (i) to encourage more countriesto establish resettlement programmesor consider UNHCR submissions; (ii)to work with established resettlement18 UNHCR Global Trends 2010
UNHCR / D. Seneviratnecountries to increase their intake ofUNHCR-identified refugees; and (iii)to prioritize responses to resettlementneeds and submissions, in light of thelimited places available.During 2010, a total of 98,800 refugeeswere admitted by 22 resettlementcountries, including the United Statesof America (71,400), (19) Canada (12,100),Australia (8,500), Sweden (1,800),and Norway (1,100). Overall, this wassome 13,600 people less than in 2009(112,400).In 2010, UNHCR submitted morethan 108,000 refugees for resettlementconsideration by States. Nine per centof all resettlement submissions werefor women and girls at risk, the highestpercentage over the last five years. Witha threefold increase in resettlement submissionsin the last few years, processingby resettlement countries faced considerablebacklogs.During the year, almost 73,000 individualsdeparted with UNHCR assistance,14 per cent less than in 2009. Thedecrease in the number of departureswas due to new security clearance requirements.In addition to Japan, Paraguayand Romania accepted resettled refugeesfor the first time. By nationality,the main beneficiaries of the UNHCRfacilitatedresettlement programmein 2010 were refugees from Myanmar(19,400), Iraq (16,000), Bhutan (14,800),Somalia (5,400), the Democratic Republicof the Congo (4,500), and Eritrea(3,300).UNHCR operations in 86 countriesof asylum were engaged in facilitatingresettlement processing during 2010.The largest number of refugees whowere resettled with UNHCR assistancedeparted from Nepal (14,800),Thailand (11,400), Malaysia (8,000),the Syrian Arab Republic (7,200),and Turkey (5,300). The five UN-HCR offices involved accountedaltogether for 6 out of every 10 resettlementdepartures assisted by theOffice in 2010.UNHCR achieved two importantmilestones in 2010 with regardto resettlement. By June 2010,and since 2007, the Office had referred100,000 Iraqi refugees forresettlement from Middle Easterncountries. Of the 100,000 submissions,more than half had departedFig. 9 UNHCR-assisted resettlement departuresof refugees | 2001-201090,00080,00070,00060,00050,00040,00030,00020,00010,0000‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10within the last three years. Lengthy securitychecks and the time it took forState processing mechanisms to be established,led to delays in the departureof refugees to their new homes.The second milestone was achievedin Nepal. Departures for the resettlementprogramme launched in November2007 to resettle refugees from Bhutanfrom camps in eastern Nepal passedthe 40,000 mark in December 2010.Refugees originating from Bhutan hadbeen resettled in eight countries, mostof them (34,130) to the United States ofAmerica. At the start of the resettlementprogramme, there were 108,000refugees from Bhutan residing in thecamps in eastern Nepal’s Jhapa and Morangdistricts. Of the 72,000 remainingin the camps, about 55,000 expressed aninterest in resettlement and are expectedto depart within the next four years.First arrivalsin JapanOn 28 September 2010, the first 18 refugeesever to be resettled in Japan arrived in Tokyo.They entered Japan as part of a pilot programmethat will resettle 90 refugees in the country overthree years – Japan is the first Asian country tobecome a resettlement country.The families, who are farmers of the Karenethnicity, fled Myanmar between 1985 and 2001.The parents range in age from 28 to 45, andalmost all their children were born as refugeesin Mae La refugee camp in northern Thailand.In total, 27 refugees were resettled in Japan inlocal integrationMeasuring the degree and nature of localintegration in quantitative terms remaineda challenge. In instances whererefugees acquired citizenship throughnaturalization, statistical data was oftenlimited as the countries concernedgenerally did not distinguish betweenthe naturalization of refugees and thenaturalization of others. In many othercountries, national laws or restrictive interpretationsof these laws did not permitrefugees to be naturalized. Hence,the naturalization of refugees was bothrestricted and, where possible, underreported.Nevertheless, limited data on thenaturalization of refugees available toUNHCR shows that during the pastdecade more than one million refugeeswere granted citizenship by theirasylum country. The United States ofAmerica alone accounted for twothirdsof this figure. During 2009and 2010, the United Republic ofTanzania granted citizenship tomore than 162,000 Burundian refugees,resolving the plight of thispopulation which had been livingin exile since 1972. For 2010, UN-HCR was informed of refugees beinggranted citizenship in Belgium(1,700), Ireland (710), Viet Nam (430),and Montenegro (350). (20) •19 During US Fiscal Year 2010, some 73,300 refugeeswere resettled by the United States of America.20 The 2010 figure for the United States of Americawas not yet available at the time of preparation of thisreport.2010. •UNHCR Global Trends 2010 19
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