Consensus statement on best practices for refugee care in Wisconsin
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Background The State of Wisconsin has a long history of refugee resettlement with over 70,000 refugees having come to Wisconsin from all over the world. At present, Wisconsin welcomes around 1500 refugees every year with the majority being resettled in the state’s urbanized southeastern corridor. Refugee resettlement trends within Wisconsin have fluctuated in conjunction with worldwide political changes. In the early to mid-1980’s, after the fall of Laos, there was a vast influx of Southeast Asian migration to Wisconsin. Following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union (marked with the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989), refugees from Eastern Europe (and the former regions within USSR) entered Wisconsin. Subsequently, people with Slavic and Illyrian ancestry immigrated to Wisconsin as refugees after the collapse of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. This last large migration peaked towards the end of 1999, a time when it was typical for Wisconsin to receive refugees from only a handful of countries every year. In fact, up until the late 1990’s well over 70% of Wisconsin’s annual refugee resettlement originated from just three regions: Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia Republic. But after the turn of the century, trends in Wisconsin’s refugee resettlement began to show much more diversification in country of origin. By 2003, for example, the number of countries of origin represented in Wisconsin’s refugee arrivals grew to fifteen; 70% of whom were arriving from sub-Sahara Africa. This dramatic increase in countries of
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017