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Each year tens of thousands of men, women, and children seek protection in the United States as refugees and asylees. Refugees are identified abroad for resettlement in the United States, often with the assistance of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), while asylum seekers (asylees) petition for protection on US territory—usually at a port of entry in the United States such as JFK or Dulles airports, or along the US-Canada or the US-Mexico border.
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García, M.C. (2014). What’s New about the New Refugees?. In: Halter, M., Johnson, M.S., Viens, K.P., Wright, C.E. (eds) What’s New about the “New” Immigration?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137483850_10
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