Sentences with phrase «abandoned by refugees»

The research for this exibition started in 2016 with a trip to the Greek island of Lesbos, where I did volunteer work with the NGO ERCI and field research around the island colleting objects abandoned by refugees and migrants.

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The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.

Persons may not be eligible to have their claim determined if they: have been recognized as a Convention refugees or protected persons by another country to which they can return; have already been granted protected person status in Canada; arrived via the Canada - United States border; are not admissible to Canada on security grounds, or because of criminal activity or human rights violations; made a previous refugee claim that was found to be ineligible for referral to determine refugee status; made a previous refugee claim that was rejected; or abandoned or withdrew a previous refugee claim.

By abandoning the Balanced Refugee Reform Act and in effect replacing it with Bill C - 31, Minister Kenney has provided the NDP with legitimacy to criticize the toughening of Canada's refugee system.