A refugee is a person that has become homeles a s the result of political turmoil, war, naturaldisasters, famine, to name but a few reasons.
Chat with our AI personalities
illegal refugees are those people who leave their country without a permission
The massive movement of people fleeing the dissolved Russian and Ottoman empires after the First World War actually began the scholarly and political conversation about refugees. In 1921 the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established in response to large numbers of refugees from the war. The UN's Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is that organizations decedent.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1938/nansen-history.html
The figure usually given is about 250,000 for the period 1933-1941. The figure includes political refugees as well as people fleeing racial persecution.
With high unemployment in the 1930s almost all countries restricted the number of refugees that they accepted. For example, in Britain refugees had to have a financial guarantee (from themselves, family, friends or a charity) that they would not become a burden on the public ... Since, after 1933-34, it was very difficult for Jews to take money out of Nazi Germany, this created problems.
CIA trained Cuban refugees