Displaced persons in Europe and their resettlement in the United States.

Report of a special subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, pursuant to H. Res. 238.

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary

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Published 1950 by U.S. Govt. Print. Off. in Washington .
Written in

Places:

• United States
Subjects:

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.,
• United States -- Emigration and immigration.

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Edition Notes

Francis E. Walter, chairman of subcommittee.

Series	[U. S.] 81st Cong., 2d sess. [1950] House. Report, no. 1507
Classifications
LC Classifications	D809.U5 A5 1950
The Physical Object
Pagination	iii, 149 p.
Number of Pages	149
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL6085144M
LC Control Number	50060158
OCLC/WorldCa	4067231

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  European Refugee Movements After World War Two repatriation or return' to their home countries of 'displaced persons'. homes in central and eastern Europe. But the buoyant United States. Refugees and Resettlement Chronology. Catholic Charities in the United States passes a resolution, at their annual meeting, appealing to the US government for an extension of its refugee aid program, since the US government had been planning to close the refugee camps in Europe shortly. The United States’ Displaced Persons Commission.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are different from refugees because, rather than fleeing their countries, they remain within their own national borders. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Guiding Principles on Internally Displaced Persons defines IDPs as: Persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of . America’s Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons, – Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, (D U5 G ) [Find in a library near you (external link)] Discusses mass immigration to the United States of refugees between and   There are now more than 70 million refugees and displaced people around the world. The International Rescue Committee is providing relief to millions in war zones and other countries in crisis; in Europe, where refugees continue to seek safety; and in our 26 resettlement offices in the United States.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), although the number of reported and confirmed cases of COVID infection among refugees remains low, over 80 per cent of the world’s refugee population and nearly all the internally displaced people live in low to middle-income countries, many of which have weaker health. By the end of , slightly more than , persons were admitted to the United States under the authority of the Displaced Persons Act. More than 70 percent of them were refugees from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Nearly 75 percent came to the United States within family groups, and about 16 percent, or 63, persons were Jewish. Towards the end of World War II, Allied and Soviet forces established processing facilities for repatriating the estimated 11 million people across Europe who were displaced or stateless as a result of the conflict (McDowell, ). In the months immediately following the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, an estimated 7 million people returned to their homeland, however, more than a year later.