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Resettlement Handbook

A key reference in elaborating resettlement criteria and developing approaches to policy.

Resettlement

An alternative for those who cannot go home, made possible by UNHCR and governments.

Resettlement on Refworld

Refworld contains a wealth of documents related to resettlement, including statistics and legal, policy and background information.

UNHCR Resettlement Handbook and Country Chapters

November 2004 edition of the UNHCR Resettlement Handbook. The Country Chapters are updated regularly by the competent government authorities.

Resettlement Procedures

Chart on case identification and determination process

Partnerships in Resettlement

How UNHCR works with the co-operation of NGOs and governments in resettlement.

What is Resettlement?

Some refugees can't go home and can't stay where they are. Resettlement is the answer.

UNHCR-ICMC Resettlement Deployment Scheme

UNHCR and the International Catholic Migration Commission support for resettlement activities.

Emerging Resettlement Countries

Not many countries offer to resettle refugees but the number is steadily growing.

UNHCR-ICMC Resettlement Deployment Scheme Background Information

Background Information on the Scheme, Application Process for the Roster and the Roster Application Form

Integration Handbook: Refugee Resettlement

A relevant handbook on the reception and integration of resettled refugees.

Durable Solutions in Practice: Worldwide Context Resettlement

Presentation by Vincent Cochetel, Deputy Director, DIPS, to the conference "Resettlement as a Durable Solutions", held in Bucharest, Romania, from 7-9 May 2008 (pdf, 193 Kb). All the conference documents are available on the official website of the conference (external link)

Durable Solutions

Voluntary repatriation, local integration, resettlement, the three key solutions.

Partnerships in Protection

UNHCR works with governments and civil society in advocacy and protection system building and resettlement.

Refugees with Special Needs

UNHCR presented a note to the UNHCR Standing Committee in June 1998 on the resettlement of refugees with special needs

Palestinians Refugees in Iraq

Out of Harm's Way in Romania

Hungarian Crisis - 50th Anniversary

A new life for refugees from Bhutan

They fled to Nepal from Bhutan amid ethnic tensions in the early 1990s. Now, many of the slightly more than 100,000 refugees have been offered the possibility of resettlement to another country.