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Refugee Resettlement And Integration In Germany: Analysis Of Media Discourse, Dylan T. O'Neil
Refugee Resettlement And Integration In Germany: Analysis Of Media Discourse, Dylan T. O'Neil
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Refugees are among the most discussed and debated topics worldwide; the massive movement of refugees and asylum seekers facing the world today is the largest since the end of the second world war. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates the total number of refugees in the world to be almost twenty-six million people, while asylum seekers account for around three million. The concept of a refugee is formally defined by the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees, which creates a legal status, and states that a refugee is a person who “faces well-founded fear of being …