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UNHCR’s resettlement practice from 1951 to 1994: The ad hoc years

In: Resettlement as Protection

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UNHCR’s resettlement practice can be distinguished into two periods, designated as the ad hoc years (1951-1994), and the structured years (1995-2023) respectively. This chapter focuses on the ad hoc years which started with refugee problems UNHCR inherited from the IRO: many refugees still languishing in camps. Emptying the camps was an important part of UNHCR’s early practice. A first major new problem was the Hungarian emergency; how it was handled set the tone for quite some years: relieving the first country of asylum completely. The second major problem consists of the Indochinese refugee exodus and the ‘automatic resettlement machine’ it engendered: it was exactly this automatism that induced changes in UNHCR’s practice: no longer would the agency focus on groups, but only on individual refugees with protection problems in the first country of asylum.

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  • ., 2024. "UNHCR’s resettlement practice from 1951 to 1994: The ad hoc years," Chapters, in: Resettlement as Protection, chapter 3, pages 90-132, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:14872_3
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