ISBN: | 9781921580338 |
Publisher: | New Holland Publishers |
Published: | 1 August, 2016 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
A refugee is defined as someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. The important parts of this definition are: • that the person has to be outside their country of origin • the reason for their flight has to be a fear of persecution • this fear of persecution has to be well founded (i.e. they have to have experienced it or be likely to experience it if they return) • the persecution has to result from one or more of the five grounds listed in the definition • they have to be unwilling or unable to seek the protection of the authorities in their country Throughout history, refugees have moved between countries and continents in search of freedom and a better life. Australia, being an island continent in the South Pacific, has not and is not immune from peoples from around the world seeking refugee status. This was the case post-World War II, when Australia took in thousands of European refugees and immigrants, and again after the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s and into the New Millennium after the invasions of Iran and Afghanistan The Story of Refugees places a difficult and often divisive social and political issue into a broader context for a younger generation of learners, and provides simple, easy to access information for younger minds.
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