2.A Refugees: From Eligibility to Arrival

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Actors May Consider:

A.1 Who is Eligible to be sponsored? A.2 What resources and partnerships are required to process privately sponsored refugees? A.3 What information and resources are provided to refugees prior to their arrival in their resettlement country? A.4 How are sponsorship-eligible refugees identified? A.5 How are sponsors and refugees in contact pre-arrival? A.6 How are refugees screened? A.7 How does overseas processing by UNHCR work? A.8 How are refugees transported and how are destinations chosen?

Resources

IRCC, “Guide 6000 – Convention Refugees Abroad and Humanitarian-Protected Persons Abroad”

RSTP, “Who Can Be Sponsored?”

Michael Casasola, “The Indochinese Refugee Movement and the Subsequent Evolution of UNHCR and Canadian Resettlement Selection Policies and Practices” (Refuge, 2016)

RSTP, “Are you eligible for private sponsorship to Canada?”

RSTP Handbook for Sponsoring Groups, “Chapter 3: Who Can be Sponsored?”

IRCC, “Resettlement: Eligibility”

Robert C. Batarseh, “Inside/Outside the Circle: From the Indochinese Designated Class to Contemporary Group Processing” (Refuge, 2016)

IRCC, “OP 5 – Overseas Selection and Processing of Convention Refugees Abroad Class and Members of the Humanitarian-protected Persons Abroad Classes”