Resettlement in the Netherlands as an invited refugee
Resettlement Every year the Netherlands invites about five hundred refugees to settle in our country. Most of these refugees come from refugee camps. COA makes the preparations for their arrival in the Netherlands. COA also maintains contacts with the municipalities that will house them. Refugees Many refugees flee to a refugee camp or a city in the region where they come from, usually in a neighbouring country. Eritrean refugees, for example, flee to a Kenyan refugee camp and Iraqi refugees to Beirut, in Lebanon. After a while some refugees can return to their country of birth or become integrated in their new country, although this is far from always the case. Resettlement programme The UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, has implemented a programme for refugees who cannot return to their homes and are not safe in the region where they fled. This programme offers the refugees an opportunity to settle in another country. The Netherlands is affiliated with...