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S: IOM – https://www.iom.int/resettlement-assistance (last access: 18 December 2023); USIP – https://www.usip.org/guiding-principles-stabilization-and-reconstruction-the-web-version/social-well-being/return-and-res (last access: 18 December 2023).
N: 1. “Settle again,” 1540s (transitive), in reference to places, from re- “back, again” + settle (v.). Intransitive sense of “become settled again” is from 1821. The meaning “bring into order again” is from 1610s. -ment, the common suffix of Latin origin forming nouns, originally from French and representing Latin -mentum, which was added to verb stems to make nouns indicating the result or product of the action of the verb or the means or instrument of the action. In Vulgar Latin and Old French it came to be used as a formative in nouns of action.
2. In the global context, the selection and transfer of refugees from a State in which they have sought protection to a third state which has agreed to admit them as refugees with permanent residence status.
3. Under the framework resettlement countries are also urged to develop selection criteria with the flexibility to resettle persons of concern to UNHCR who may not fall within the terms of the 1951 Convention, which has been particularly important for the group resettlement methodology.
4. Although the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement use the term resettlement (Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (11 February 1998) UN Doc E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, Section V), the term settlement elsewhere is currently more commonly used to refer to one of the three durable solution to internal displacement.
– resettlement (refugees): The transfer of refugees from the country in which they have sought protection to another State that has agreed to admit them – as refugees – with permanent residence status.
Resettled refugees will usually be granted asylum or some other form of long‐term resident rights and, in many cases, will have the opportunity to be naturalized.
5. An explicit combination of resettlement with border control regulations is included in the so-called EU-Turkey deal. Under this arrangement, governments offer resettlement spots in exchange for stricter enforcement of external border controls and the return of migrants already arrived in EU territory.
6. Differences between resettlement, relocation and repatriation:
- Resettlement means that if a refugee cannot find security in the country they first arrived in, and if they cannot return to their home country, another country will be found for them to stay in. This only applies to people who qualify as refugees recognized by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Resettlement especially assists those who have special health or legal requirements.
- Relocation refers to moving asylum seekers from EU countries that are under extraordinary pressure (currently Greece and Italy), and moving them to other EU member states to undergo the asylum process in the new country. Only people who applied for international protection in Greece or Italy are eligible for relocation in the EU.
People entering another country via to relocation are treated as asylum seekers. Asylum seekers who go through relocation are transported to a country that grants asylum at least 75 percent of the time, according to current EU procedures. - Repatriation is the act of an asylum seeker returning to the country where they were citizens. Refugees have the right to return to their country of origin if they desire to, according to the European Commission. This is not to be confused with deportation, which is when the state removes a non-national.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/word/resettlement (last access: 18 December 2023). 2. EC – https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/european-migration-network-emn/emn-asylum-and-migration-glossary/glossary/resettlement_en (last access: 8 December 2023). 3. UNHCR – https://www.unhcr.org/in/sites/en-in/files/legacy-pdf/46f7c0ee2.pdf (last access: 8 December 2023). 4. IOM – https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/IML_34_Glossary.pdf (last access: 18 December 2023). 5. EURAC – https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mobile-people-and-diverse-societies/the-strategic-use-of-resettlement-policies-by-western-countries (last access: 8 December 2023). 6. InfoMig – https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/8449/the-difference-between-relocation-repatriation-and-resettlement (last access: 8 December 2023).
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CR: repatriation.
