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Welcome to Europe! Welcome to Europe! A comprehensive guide to resettlement resettlement genbosætning vidarebosättning gjenbosetting uudelleensijoittamista réinstallation reasentamiento hervestiging umsiedlung reinstalação reinsediamento znovuosídlení презаселване relocare búferlaflutningum ümberasustamine áttelepítés przesiedlenia uchodźców presídľovania preselitev persikėlimo pārcelšanās ICMC – A Continued Commitment to Resettlement With a worldwide membership, staff and operations, and working with migrants and refugees in more than 40 countries, the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) serves and protects uprooted people – refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants – regardless of faith, race, ethnicity or nationality. Since its creation in 1951, ICMC has identified and accompanied over one million refugees for resettlement. Through its Turkey and Lebanon offices, the ICMC Refugee Support Centre (RSC) processes refugees for resettlement to the United States. Additionally, ICMC provides expert resettlement personnel through the ICMC-UNHCR Resettlement Deployment Scheme to support UNHCR resettlement activities in field offices. In 2012 alone, ICMC deployees put forward 36,880 refugees for resettlement consideration, contributing significantly to the total of 74,839 persons submitted by UNHCR to resettlement countries that year. The ICMC Europe office in Brussels works to promote resettlement in Europe and, with its partners IOM and UNHCR, develops the European Resettlement Network (www.resettlement.eu) to build European resettlement capacity and expertise. Via the Resettlement Saves Lives Campaign, ICMC Europe also advocates for 20,000 resettlement places to be offered by Europe each year by 2020.In order to engage local actors in resettlement, ICMC Europe is currently implementing the SHARE project, building a European resettlement network of cities, regions and civil society partners committed to refugee protection and integration. Principal authors: Rachel Westerby, City Coordinator (ICMC Europe) and Sophie Ngo-Diep, Policy & Project Development Officer (ICMC Europe) Together with: Petra Hueck, Head of Office (ICMC Europe) and Salomé Phillmann, inde- pendent researcher Editor: Rachel Westerby Concept & Layout: Crossmark, Belgium – www.crossmark.be Printed by: édition & imprimerie, Belgium - www.edimp.be Date of publication: July 2013 Cover photos from top to bottom and from left to right: © Iraq/Syrian refugee children play on playground equipment amid refugee families’ tents in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan region of Iraq/UNHCR/2013 © Tunisia / Somali refugee Mohammed receives from UNHCR the good news that he has been accepted for resettlement to the US/ UNHCR/R. Nuri/ April 2012 © Nepal/Bhutanese refugees attend a cultural orientation class conducted by IOM/IOM/Kari Collins/2009 © Tunisia/IOM arranges a charter flight from Djerba to Hannover on behalf of the German government for the refugees/IOM/2012 The Netherlands/ Wommels (North Netherlands) is home to two Bhutanese families. The children are going to the local primary school/UNHCR/P.de Ruiter/2011 © UK/An Ethiopian Oromo family resettled to Brighton, UK/UNHCR/H.Davies/2007 1 Welcome to Europe! A comprehensive guide to resettlement Preface Every year, thousands of men, women and children flee persecution and find in resettlement the possibility to build a new life and to contribute to a new society. Welcome to Europe! Since the first edition of Welcome to Europe in 2007, we are encouraged that resettlement has increased and expanded across EU Member States together with the development of important policies in this field. Resettlement has become a new expression of European solidarity with refugee-hosting countries, and is now firmly established as an integral part of the external dimension of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). Further evidence of this was reflected in the March 2012 adoption of the Joint EU Resettlement Programme. Since 2007, a number of EU Member States - Belgium, France, Germany, Romania and Spain, have joined the resettlement ‘family’ - with some fourteen EU Member States now considered to have regular resettlement programmes. At the same time, the number of refugees resettled to the EU is still low by comparison to annual resettlement departure figures, representing just over 6% of the almost 70,000 refugees resettled globally during 2012. Undoubtedly, Europe can and should play a greater role in providing protection for the most vulnerable refugees. National and local cam- paigns across Europe advocate for more and better resettlement, while the Resettlement Saves Lives campaign launched by a coalition of NGOs including ICMC, together with IOM, advocates for Europe to provide 20,000 resettlement places every year by 2020. Believing this to be an achievable target, those involved are committed to practical cooperation in support of that goal. Since 2007, ICMC, UNHCR and IOM have worked closely and strategically to strengthen and increase EU resettlement through the development of the 2 European Resettlement Network. The Network is an inclusive community that connects a variety of actors with a shared commitment to refugee resettlement and protection. The exchange of information, knowledge and best practice in resettlement, as well as the better linking of all phases of the resettlement process are the core objectives of the Network. Successful resettlement incorporates a wide range of activities, from initial identification and registration of refugees, to pre-departure arrangements and subsequent reception and integration in local communities. This ICMC publication is a resource that illustrates how these different phases ‘link’ together to make resettlement a solution that works for both refugees and their new communities. Partnerships with NGOs and wider civil society are central to this success, as is public support and improved paths for integration for resettled refugees. This publication also underscores the life-saving role of resettlement, and we hope that it will further contribute to the promotion of resettlement in Europe as one component of a comprehensive and durable approach to protecting refugees. ICMC, UNHCR and IOM commend the EU and its Member States for their efforts in providing welcoming communities for resettled refugees, and express our sincere hope that this commitment will further increase both the number of available resettlement places and the quality of European resettlement, to a level that that truly says “Welcome to Europe!” July 2013 Johan Ketelers Bernd Hermingway Vincent Cochetel ICMC IOM UNHCR 3 Acknowledgements We would like to sincerely thank the following people whose contributions of time and expertise made the writing of this guide possible: Ewout Adriaens, Elena Alonso Ventura, Kofi Amankwah, Jo de Backer, Linda Besharaty, John Bingham, Kristin Blais, Bente Bondebjerg, Anastasia Brown, Julia Capel-Dunn, Anne Dussart, Janneke van Etten, Lisa Fischer, Chris Friesen, Hanno van Gemund, Bruno Gilain, Martina Glennon, Jakob Dam Glynstrup, Monica Harju, Mélanie Hostaux, Yukiko Iriyama, Christoph Jansen, Catherine Keuning, Andrea Kothen, Helena Kullberg, Thomas Langwald, Martin Larsson, Patrick Lefèvre, Sandrine Lesecq, Michèle Morel, Sokhna Ndao, Ana Neamtu, Séverine Origny-Fleishman, Peter O’Sullivan, Tonje Øyan, Paloma Pino Cordón, Eleodor Pirvu, Paul Power, Tarja Rantala, Tracey Raw, Linda Rós Alfreðsdóttir, Marit Rosenvinge, Paula Selin, Kateřina Šimová, Ann-Charlotte Sirén-Borrego, Cristina Sosa Erdozain, Carolin Spannuth-Verma, Matthieu Tardis, Denise Thomsson, Norbert Trosien, Ariane den Uyl, João Vasconcelos, Corinna Wicher, Emilie Wiinblad, Marie Wilson Acronyms AT: Austria FR: France NL: Netherlands BE: Belgium GR: Greece NO: Norway BG: Bulgaria HU: Hungary PL: Poland CY: Cyprus IE: Ireland PT: Portugal CZ: Czech Republic IS: Iceland RO: Romania DE: Germany IT: Italy SE: Sweden DK: Denmark LT: Lithuania SK: Slovakia EE: Estonia LU: Luxembourg SV: Slovenia ES: Spain LV: Latvia UK: United Kingdom FI: Finland MT: Malta Preface ..................................................................................1 Acknowledgements ...............................................................3 1. International Protection ...................................................9 1.1. Refugees in international law ................................................9 1.2. UNHCR mandate .................................................................10 1.3. International protection – needs and numbers ...................11 1.4. Durable solutions ................................................................13 2. Resettlement ..................................................................15 2.1. Definition ...........................................................................15 2.2. Functions of resettlement ...................................................15 international protection protection international 2.3. Who is resettled? ................................................................15 CHAPTER I – Resettlement and and I – Resettlement CHAPTER 2.4. Strategic use of resettlement ..............................................18 1. UNHCR Resettlement operations ....................................21 2. Global resettlement needs and capacity ........................21 3. Resettlement countries ..................................................22 4. Mechanisms for global resettlement planning ...............23 5. Partnerships in resettlement ..........................................24
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