Human Cargo (58 page)

IDPs and,
38
,
47–51

internal affairs of nations and,
38

long-term camps in Guinea and,
188–89

and the media,
175

migration and,
349–54

misconduct in,
211

Palapa
and,
129–30

Palestinian refugees and,
38
,
242
n,
251–54

refugee status, refusal of,
328–32

relief vs. protection and,
45–51

report of 2003 on camps,
242
n

resettlement and, in Australia,
126

Sierra Leone and,
200

Vietnamese boat people and,
50–51

UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA),
34–35
,
38

UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA),
226

United States

Afghan refugees in,
294

anti-immigration lobby,
51

asylum requests in,
46
n

child refugees and,
110

detention in,
109–11

guest workers in,
95–96

history of immigration into,
95–96

immigrants, categories of,
107
n

legal hurdles in, post-9/11,
101
,
107–9

Liberia and,
197–99

Liberian refugees in,
360–67

Mexican border and,
84–85
,
87
,
89–90
,
92
,
98–99
,
106

nationalities crossing into,
95
,
101–6

number of asylum seekers in,
11
,
46
n

Palestinian refugees and,
231
,
250

post-WW II refugees and,
34–35
,
36

resettlement and,
6
,
11
,
15
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
333

Somalian refugees in,
356

unaccompanied minors and,
110–11

UNIICR and,
39
,
49

U.S. Border Patrol,
84–85
,
86
,
91–92

U.S. Congress,
108

U.S. Department or’ Health and Human Services (HHS),
110

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs,
268

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS),
97

U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement,
110

U.S. State Department,
36

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948),
35
,
152

USA Patriot Act,
108

Vanstone, Amanda,
124
,
135
,
147

Varga, Susan,
150

Vietnamese refugees,
40
,
50–51
,
127
in Finland,
332

vigilantes

in Guinea,
207–8

U.S.-Mexico border and,
99–100

Villa wood detention center (Australia),
137–39
,
140
,
143
,
144
,
154–55

Virgil,
262

visas,
50
,
140

Voltaire,
31

Wafa, Jawad,
299–301
,
307
,
314
,
319
,
358

Wannsee Conference (1942),
354–55

wars and civil conflict

casualties from,
43

See also
specific conflicts

West

asylum policies in,
43
,
49

image of, in refugees in Egypt,
12

migration and,
355–56

See also
Europe;
and specific nations

West African Economic Community,
188

White, T. W.,
117

White Australia policy,
117–19

Whitlam, Gough,
118
,
129

Why Am I Here?
(Amnesty International report, 2003),
111

Wiesel, Elie,
3

Wilder, Andrew,
311

Wilhelmensen, Wilhelm,
130

Wilkinson, Marian,
135

women

Afghanistan and,
308
,
322–25

as rape survivors,
8
,
43
,
245
,
266
,
271
,
272
,
281–82

trafficking of,
49–50

See also
prostitution; rape

Woomera detention center (Australia),
120
,
123
,
136–37
,
142–43
,
149

work, availability of

Britain and,
171
,
172
,
180

Egypt and,
9

Finland and,
338–39

Italy and,
73–74

World Food Programme (WFP),
193–94
,
309

World Health Organization (WHO),
260

World War I,
32

World War II,
264
,
350

displaced person and,
34–36
,
117–18

Yalta conference,
34

Yemen

as receiving country,
52
,
356

Youhana (Iranian refugee),
121
,
123–24

Yugoslav refugees,
44
,
73
,
74

Zable, Arnold,
149

Zahra (Afghan boat person),
134

Zahra (Iranian refugee),
136–41

Zimbabwean refugees,
159
,
168
,
169–70
,
172
,
184

as torture victims,
272

Zionists,
221
,
229–31

“zones of protection” proposal,
176