Refugee Warehousing

The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) is focussing attention on the problem of Refugee Warehousing.

Over seven million of the world's 12 million refugees, have been "warehoused" - confined to camps or segregated settlements or otherwise deprived of basic rights - for 10 years or more.

USCRI says refugee protection and assistance does not have to involve spatial confinement and enforced idleness as has become the norm. The 1951 Refugee Convention recognizes refugees' rights to work and freedom of movement but these rights are not being applied.

Refugee Resettlement has endorsed USCRI's Statement Calling for Solutions to End the Warehousing of Refugees.

For more information on the warehousing of refugees please visit the USCRI website.