Sentences with phrase «political asylum seekers»

She has served on the State Bar of Texas» Court Rules Committee since 2009 and also provides volunteer legal services to political asylum seekers.

For example, I participated in the 2002 Tirana Biennale representing Greece, during a heavily turbulent political period for the Balkans with refugees flooding in from the Balkan region, as well as many political asylum seekers from Iraq.

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According to Rudaw, there are around 1,500 Kurdish asylum seekers in Van, some of whom cite political, ethnic, or cultural reasons as their reasons to leave Iran, alongside the nearly 500 of them who have converted to Christianity.

Theresa May was accused of allowing someone to die «to score a political point» today, after a starving asylum seeker was deported to Nigeria despite fears he might not survive the flight.

A member of London Citizens described the course the pair will take in Hemel Hempstead next week: «They will be in there with asylum seekers, churchgoers and people way outside the political class.

Mary and Joseph are sent to Bethlehem by a census designed to improve the tax take; they end up homeless; after Jesus is born, they are forced by the threat of political violence to flee - as asylum seekers - to Egypt.

The current political attitude is concerned with closing the borders and to reduce the number of refugees and asylum - seekers within South Africa.

This article will illustrate political attitudes of the government of South Africa towards refugees and asylum - seekers that influences adoption of national policies, which do not promote favourable access to tertiary education.

Bundle includes 5 hours of lessons covering the following topics Migration to the UK Refugees and asylum seekers Nuclear weapons British political parties and representation Corruption in politics

Generally, exclusion of refugees is grounded in the hyped fears of employers and service providers that the Immigration Act of 2002 could impose penalties on them if they do not comply with its rules.15 This misconception is further reinforced by political statements, which hold that the majority of refugees are bogus or economic migrants who are in South Africa in a search of a better life.16 There is apparently an inability to distinguish between applicability of the immigration regime and refugee regime.17 However, it is true that the Refugees Act of 1998 strictly exempts refugees and asylum - seekers from the immigration restrictive measures imposed on non-citizens in certain circumstances.

Michal Heiman's project «Radical Link: Return / Asylum» envisions the political, cultural, gendered, and psychic conditions of asylum - seAsylum» envisions the political, cultural, gendered, and psychic conditions of asylum - seasylum - seekers.

However, while the issue of immigration in the US (as in other countries) has traditionally been regarded as a political or economic issue, more recently there is a recognition — in some quarters at least — that there are social and human issues, such as the separation of families, the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, racial anxieties, national identity and perceptions that traditions are under threat.

Given that war and political violence are major causes of forced migration, many child and adolescent refugee and asylum seekers migrate with a history of traumatic stress exposure (Almqvist & Brandell - Forsberg, 1997).

English: Students are asked to review newspaper commentary on a current political issue in debate in Australia such as asylum seekers or same - sex marriage and develop an understanding of the many different arguments in the debate.