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16 Refugee Reports 1 (1995)

handle is hein.immigration/refgrpt0016 and id is 1 raw text is: ReffigP Reorts A News Service of the U.S. Committee for Refugees 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 701 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 347-3507 Volume XVI, Number I January 31, 1995 OAKLEY LOOKS TO FUTURE OF U.S. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM, PRESENT TREATMENT OF CUBANS AND HAITIANS (In January, Refugee Reports interviewed Phyllis Oakley, As- sistant Secretary of State and the director of the new Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). Below are ex- cerpts from that conversation.) RR: What is your assessment of worldwide resettlement needs and what trends do you anticipate in admissions-in terms of numbers and nationalities-in the next few years? OAKLEY: During the Cold War, we had a picture of refugees belonging to small groups of people fleeing oppression or breaking out of some place where they were prevented from leaving, such as Hungary, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. That picture has changed. Now, there are very few countries where people literally are held back from leaving. We used to have refugees fleeing from tyranny: we now see refugees from anarchy. People are fleeing because the government can no longer sustain the society. People understand that their situation is not tenable, and they want to get out if they feel that they don't have a chance to change the society. With today's vast flow of information, people know what's going on in the world. They know that there are places where conditions are better. As a result, we have to rethink criteria for refugee admissions into the United States. We've been working on that for almost a year, but we've not really come up with anything for the future. There is, however, general agreement in the United States that we should continue a refugee program. This in- cludes assistance for refugees overseas, and continuing an admissions program and bringing people here, not only for the leadership that it demonstrates to the world but also because of our own experience, that refugees have enriched our country. This is a tradition that I think we all want to uphold. But we've not really thought through or fully articulated what the new criteria are going to be for refugee admis- IN THIS ISSUE: Refugee Reports staff writers interview Phyllis Oakley, Assistant Secretary of State and director of the State Department's Bureau for Population, Refugees, and M igration ................................... 1 * Recent Developments U.S. involuntarily returns Haitians from Guantdnamo to Haiti ..... 5 * Feature U.S. NGO delegation tours Vietnam, counsels Vietnamese asylum seekers in first asylum states .............. 7 * Updates Congressional refugee subcomnit- tees named .......................... 14 ORR announces discretionary grants ................................ 15 * Statistics UNHCR Summary of 1995 resettle- ment needs ........................ 16

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