Canada - A Country of First Asylum

Editorial

How Many Refugees in Africa?

No-one really knows how many people have been forcibly uprooted by political instability and war,but the estimated numbers of refugees hosted by African counuies are shown on the map. These do not include the possibly additional thousands labelled "illigal aliens" and hounded by unfriendly hosts, or the millions of people who have been uprooted whithin their own national boundaries by the same causes. Most alarming, the numben of uprooted people in Africa are increasing

The Truama of the "Boat People"

Sixty-four Vietnamese Chinese refugees were asked to report "What happened during the flight?" as part of a survey conducted by Lawrence Lam of York University. The chart lists the events most frequently experienced by these "boat people.

Who's who in Canada's Employment and Immigration Commission

Organizational chart of the Employment and Immigration Commission

Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedures

Access to the Refugee Determination Procedure• Efficient and Expeditious Procedures• Oral Hearing• Quality Decision Making• Right to Information about the Procedure• Right to Counsel• Right to Interpreters• Reasonable Time Limitation

Canadian Foundation for Refugees Plans Refugee Newsletter

Above is an excerpt from a letter sent to me by the Canadian Foundation for Refugees. Why is the Foundation planning to produce such a newsletter when Refuge is already being published? Further, the proposed contents of the newsletter overlap ours. This is a waste of government funds. One or the other should not be published. We would like to hear the views of our readers

International Protection:Are Doors Closing on Refugees?

A report on the UNHCR Executive Committee Meeting Geneva, October 1982

Refugee Documentation Project

The Refugee Documentation Project at York University is concerned with ac- quiring and preserving archival materials pertaining to refugees in and from all parts of the world. (The Pro- ject's library is open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.) Donations of documents, papers, reports or other library materials are encouraged

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Books Received

The Hai Hong: Profit, Tears and Joy by Rene Pappone. Published by Employ- ment and Immigration Canada. 1982. This book tells the story of the Cana- dian government's involvement in the 1978 Indochinese refugee crisis. The author, Rene Pappone, was at that time employed by Employment and Immigration Canada as a- media rela- tions officer