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Protracted refugeesituations: the searchfor practical solutionsThe majority of today s refugees have lived in exile for far too long, restricted to campsor eking out a meagre existence in urban centres throughout the developing subsist in a state of limbo, and are often dependent on others to find solutions totheir plight. Their predicament is similar to that of the tens of thousands of refugeeswho stagnated in camps in Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. The HighCommissioner for Refugees at the time, Gerrit van Heuven Goedhart, called thosecamps black spots on the map of Europe that should burn holes in the consciencesof all those privileged to live in better conditions .1If the situation persisted, he said,the problems of refugees would fester and his office would be reduced to simplyadministering human misery .2 The issue of displaced persons in Europe was finallysettled some 20 years after the end of the Second World War; today s protractedrefugee crises, however, show no signs of being resolved in the near the early 1990s, the international community has focused largely on refugeeemergencies.
Protracted refugee situations: the search for practical solutions The majority of today’s refugees have lived in exile for far too long, restricted to camps
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