Bhutan's Refugees - My Country is My Family.
The only exception made was that Bhutanese refugees were able to leave and settle in the United States of America. Some refugees will go and some will stay which is very hard leaving your family behind for better opportunities and freedoms that weren't offered in the refugee camp.Research Papers on Bhutanese Refugees Bhutanese Refugees research papers examine the camps of refugees, set up by the United Nations, and discuss the efforts to resettle the refugees. Bhutan is, like Nepal, a mountain kingdom in the Himalayas, bordered on the north by China and on the south by India.The United States offered in October, 2006 to resettle 60,000 Bhutanese refugees other countries (Australia, Newzeland, Canada including some members countries of the European Union) have agreed with the United Nations Agency (UNHCR) to make similar offers in a burden sharing effort. 2.
The first batch of refugees arrived in the US in 2007, and although countries like Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, and New Zealand also took some refugees, 80,752 of the 95,361 refugees resettled as of the end of February 2015 were given shelter by the US.Of the nearly 100,000 Bhutanese refugees resettled around the world, 85 percent have come to the United States, according to the U.S. government.
According to Department of Homeland Security estimates, approximately 8.8 million of the more than 13 million LPRs who live in the United States are estimated to be eligible to apply for naturalization. And 1.4 million come from Asian and Pacific Island countries, which include Bhutanese refugees.
