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A resident alien is someone who stays indefinitely in a country legally without obtaining citizenship. These people might not feel at home yet because being called an alien is very inhumane to people.

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RESIDENT ALIEN In 1988, Liu was invited to be a resident artist at the Capp Street Project in San Francisco. While there, she created a body of paintings concerned with the history of Chinese...

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A resident alien stays indefinitely in a country legally without obtaining citizenship.

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Pull Factors are what pull people  to do something important or life changing in their lives. This is what changes people to let them experience different and intriguing situations in their lifetimes.

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Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

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This video shows how long immigration has been going on in America. It's a very common act made by many people around the world and is viewed as something normal.

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Animated Map Shows History Of Immigration To The US

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First and second generation immigrants are people who are born here after someone in there family before them immigrated here from some where else.

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Pull Factors is someone trying to reach something, like education or a job.

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This picture shows people getting deported because they were undocumented. being deported means to be forced back to your home country instead of being allowed to become a citizen.

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This picture demonstrates how hard it can be to get a green card. In this picture it show someone getting rejected witch must be devastating because that was a lot of work fill out all of the paperwork.

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A green card is like a visa but it allows you to stay for a indefinite amount of time.

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Article: Push factors In this article, there are many push factors that are pushing people from Libya to go to Europe to live a better life. In the article it says that people go possibly drown on the way there but that's much more preferable than to live in Libya for them.

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It is a fool's game trying to cross the Mediterranean in a rubber boat - even as summer beckons, the days are longer and the weather supposedly improves.

Forget the mental image you might have from seaside holidays of an azure sea whose rippling waves beckon you in for a cooling dip.

I joined a migrant rescue mission out on the Mediterranean last week in the Aquarius, a search-and-rescue vessel nearly 77m long.

And it shuddered and groaned from bow to stern as it thrashed through the 3.5m swells that suddenly whip up in these treacherous waters.

So pity the plight of thousands of migrants setting out in a flimsy inflatable, most of whom are unable to swim and are weak from standing up for 10 hours on their perilous voyages.

Deaths at sea have risen ninefold since October 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) charity.

And yet in the first three months of this year, 18,000 migrants attempted the crossing from Libya - 8,000 more than in the same period last year.
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So why do they still come?

Is it the "pull factor" - are the migrants "pulled" in the direction of Europe by the belief they will be picked up by rescue missions like the one I joined?

Or is there, in fact, an even stronger "push factor"? Are the migrants being pushed out of countries such as Libya by living conditions so horrific that even the possibility of drowning at sea seems preferable?

Drowning no deterrent

What is certain is that those European politicians who thought the stories and images of people drowning would serve as a deterrent to others were wrong.

There are estimated to be some three million migrants and refugees in Libya. And a third of them - mostly from Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea - are believed to be waiting and working towards their passage to Europe.

In the past three years, there have been two major European-led search-and-rescue programmes in the Mediterranean.

The first, Mare Nostrum, was run by the Italian navy and was hugely successful, saving about 100,000 lives in little over a year. Yet 18 months ago, the Italians abandoned the operation.

It was expensive and, in Europe, politically unpopular. A number of European leaders thought Mare Nostrum was exacerbating the problem of migrant voyages.

The people smugglers knew the ships were there; they knew the Italian navy would come to the rescue of their desperate cargoes.

Mare Nostrum was just too successful: perhaps - said some - it represented the "pull factor".

The focus of Operation Triton, which replaced it, was much narrower in scope. While still Italian-led, the lifesaving vessels supposedly stay closer to Italian shores. And consequently the risk of drowning has grown.

Yet still the migrants come. More than 500 have been picked up by Aquarius alone in the past seven days. Many boats sink without anyone knowing, as the bodies washing up on Libyan beaches attest.

Is it time, therefore, to look at the "push" factor?

Xenophobia and lawlessness

Libya is a country in ruins, dangerous for everyone. But it is especially dangerous if you are a black man, partly owing to deep-seated racist attitudes among the Libyan people.

The migrants, whether they are from the Horn of Africa or West Africa, are in the grip of the people smugglers who pick them up as soon as they leave their countries of origin and "usher" them through the Sahara. There is only one destination: Libya.

But it's not the gateway many believe it to be. The chaos and lawlessness in Libya feed the xenophobia. On Aquarius last week, I heard similar stories, time and again, of migrants and refugees murdered, exploited, forced to work without pay, robbed in their homes or in the streets.

And some of the worst places are the government-run detention centres for migrants.

Human Rights Watch has taken scores of testimonies that tell of whippings, electric shocks, beatings, strip-searches, "people being hung upside down from the trees".

The centres - run by Libya's interior ministry - are severely overcrowded. And often the day-to-day operations of these prisons are contracted out to the militias, who are in cahoots with the people smugglers.

On board Aquarius, I met Ansumana Badjie, 20, from Gambia.

He had spent several weeks in one of these notorious centres. He had been working in Libya, trying to earn enough money for his sea crossing, but was kidnapped from his home, and imprisoned. His only crime, it seemed, was being black.

"We were given just one meal a day," he told me. "It was horrendous, we were beaten, there were no showers. There were people who disappeared. Even if I had wanted to go home, there was no way out."

Eventually he did escape, in a breakout. How he found his way to the beach was not entirely clear. But seemingly he was kept in a cavernous "hole" dug into the sand on the beach for days. "We slept in the hole, we peed in the hole,'' he said.

And when it came to the day of departure?

"Oh my God!" he exclaimed. "The boat! But there was no choice. No-one in his right mind would get in that rubber boat with 110 people. But with a gun at your back? It was the only choice I had."

"The gun in the back" - the push factor.

Forced into boat

Others - some barely into their teens - had experienced similar torture.

Zach, 13, from Ivory Coast, told me he too had been forced into the boat.

"You die or you survive," he said. "They would have shot me there on the beach. I have no parents, my brother drowned on this sea last year. And Libya? Libya was hell on earth. So why not?"

Last week, the IOM invited diplomats from Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger and Gambia to visit these Libyan detention centres. They went to the Al Garabulli centre, east of Tripoli.

The visitors met 315 West Africans there, of whom 202 expressed an interest in going back voluntarily to their countries of origin. At another centre, Abu Salim, 370 out of 450 West African migrants said they would go home.

But many of these migrants and refugees have had their passports stolen or confiscated by smugglers, criminal gangs or even their Libyan employers. The truth is that they have no means of escape.

Too often the boats are the only way out.

And not a seaworthy boat but a rubber boat; a boat with barely enough fuel to travel 12 miles to international waters, a boat with 110 people on board, standing room only.

There is more than a 50/50 chance you are going to drown.

So if that is the best decision, if that is the rational decision, how bad were their lives in their home countries? And how bad must Libya be for black Africans?

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It is a fool's game trying to cross the Mediterranean in a rubber boat - even as summer beckons, the days are longer and the weather supposedly improves. Forget the mental image you might have from seaside holidays of an azure sea whose rippling waves beckon you in for a cooling dip.

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Push Factors                                      A negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave, especially in one's country, region, organization, religion, etc. In migration, push factors are those that encourage a population to leave its home.

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Push Factors                                      A negative aspect or condition that motivates one to leave, especially in one's country, region, organization, religion, etc. In migration, push factors are those that encourage a population to leave its home.

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Picture: Naturalization Naturalization is when a person becomes a citizen. In this picture, there are many people who are becoming citizens of the United States.

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Picture: Naturalization Naturalization is when a person becomes a citizen. In this picture, there are many people who are becoming citizens of the United States.

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Naturalization                                               When a person isn't a citizen and then they become a citizen of a country.

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Naturalization                                               When a person isn't a citizen and then they become a citizen of a country.

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Picture: Deportation          Deportation is the act of taking a person who may not belong to a certain country and taking them back to their country. Many people are against this but at the same time, it's a very popular act in the United States.

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Picture: Deportation          Deportation is the act of taking a person who may not belong to a certain country and taking them back to their country. Many people are against this but at the same time, it's a very popular act in the United States.

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For years, immigrants facing deportation have been allowed to stay in the U.S. provided they show up for regular check-ins with federal deportation agents and stay out of trouble. After a brief meeting, they're usually told to return months later to check in again.

Now, in cases spanning from Michigan to California, some of these immigrants are being told their time here is up.

Immigrants who already have deportation orders and were allowed to stay in the country under the prior administration have become a target under President Donald Trump's new immigration policies, with some getting arrested on the spot during check-ins with officers. Such arrests have dismayed family members and sent chills through immigrant communities.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS NOW HAVE RINGTONE ALERTING THEM FROM DEPORTATION
In other instances, immigrants have been fitted with ankle-monitoring bracelets. Others have been released much like they were during President Barack Obama's administration in what immigration attorneys say appears to be a random series of decisions based more on detention space than public safety.

"Everywhere, people going in to report are just absolutely terrified," said Stacy Tolchin, a Los Angeles immigration attorney.

Agents still consider requests to delay deportations at immigrants' regularly scheduled check-ins if, for example, someone has a medical condition, said David Marin, who oversees enforcement and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles. But decisions are made on an individual basis, and efforts are being stepped up to procure travel documents from foreign countries to send people back home.

"They still have the ability to file a stay, but again, we're looking at it in a different light," Marin said. "There has to be an end game here."
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it is tracking nearly 970,000 immigrants with deportation orders. The majority - 82 percent - have no criminal record, the agency said. ICE declined to say how many must regularly report to authorities or are tracked by ankle monitors, and it is unclear how many are being arrested.

Trump boosted immigration arrests by 38 percent in the early days of his administration, but deportations fell from a year ago as activity on the U.S.-Mexico border slowed.

For authorities keen on showing they're beefing up immigration enforcement, immigrants who already have deportation orders are seen as an easy target. They can be removed from the country more quickly than newly arrested immigrants, whose cases can drag on for years in immigration court proceedings and appeals.
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"I just assume they figure this is an easy removal. All we have to do is deport this person, and that adds to our numbers of people who are out of the United States," said Heather Prendergast, chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Liaison Committee.

Many immigrants with old deportation orders have lived in the United States for years and set down roots here despite having no legal status, which deportation agents were known to weigh to decide who was a priority for removal.

Under the Obama administration, immigration lawyers said their clients often were told they faced no immediate risk of being deported and could temporarily remain, so long as they committed no crimes.

In Michigan, Jose Luis Sanchez-Ronquillo reported to authorities for more than four years before he was arrested at an April check-in and sent to a Louisiana detention facility. The 36-year-old father of two came into contact with police during a traffic stop and lost his immigration case in 2012. But he was then repeatedly allowed to stay, said Shanta Driver, his lawyer.

In Virginia, 33-year-old Cesar Lara was detained in May after living here for a decade. The Mexican house painter wound up with a deportation order after he was arrested in 2012, when officials stopped him for removing wood from a forest, said his mother, Maria De Lara.

"(Trump) said they were just going to deport pure criminals and bad people, and my son is not a criminal," she said. "He's working for the community."

It's hard to know how many immigrants with deportation orders are being detained. In Atlanta, immigration attorney Charles Kuck said one in five of his clients with scheduled check-ins has been detained since Trump took office, something that hardly ever happened during the prior administration.

Immigration lawyers said they tell clients they must attend required check-ins, and immigrants usually do, hoping to be allowed to stay and avoid the prospect of deportation agents showing up at their homes.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said he believes deportations will rise as the Trump administration continues to arrest immigrants here illegally and that authorities will focus more on the interior of the country as activity on the southern border declines.

"These are people who have had their chance at due process, and it is just Obama decided to let them stay," said Krikorian, who wants stricter limits on immigration. "It is a perfectly defensible and perfectly appropriate use of their resources to start with these people who are already ordered deported."

While those supporting Trump see the shift as a necessary fix to a dysfunctional immigration system, critics say politics is driving the change.

Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, said authorities already are deporting immigrants from the jails, and illegal immigration from Mexico has waned, prompting the Trump administration to look for ways to satisfy campaign supporters.

"The administration ran on this phantom problem, and now they're going to have to big-time deliver on their promises," Nowrasteh said.

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For years, immigrants facing deportation have been allowed to stay in the U.S. provided they show up for regular check-ins with federal deportation agents and stay out of trouble. After a brief meeting, they're usually told to return months later to check in again.

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Refugee                                              A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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Refugee                                              A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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Article: Visa                                                This article by the Washington Post talks about changes to the Visa system and making the rules a bit more strict for those who apply for immigration status. These changes include denying visa status if a person attempts to gain visa access or citizenship through other means than the ones they initially stated in their visa application (like an unplanned marriage to a citizen).

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Article: Visa                                                This article by the Washington Post talks about changes to the Visa system and making the rules a bit more strict for those who apply for immigration status. These changes include denying visa status if a person attempts to gain visa access or citizenship through other means than the ones they initially stated in their visa application (like an unplanned marriage to a citizen).

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Visa                                                     A Visa is a document that allows an immigrant to remain in a country for a fixed amount of time.

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Picture: Xenophobia                    This picture demonstrates a moment of xenophobia. In this picture, the caption reads, "No Irish Need Apply." Since xenophobia is a hostility or prejudice towards people from other countries, this shows xenophobia because there is an active workplace prejudice against the Irish telling them not to even bother applying for a position.

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Picture: Xenophobia                    This picture demonstrates a moment of xenophobia. In this picture, the caption reads, "No Irish Need Apply." Since xenophobia is a hostility or prejudice towards people from other countries, this shows xenophobia because there is an active workplace prejudice against the Irish telling them not to even bother applying for a position.

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In the midst of what appeared to be a deadly upsurge in violence against foreign nationals spreading through the country last week, government insisted these acts of violence ought to be treated as criminal in nature, rather than xenophobic.

"Cabinet is cautious not to label this violence as xenophobia because preliminary evidence indicates that these acts may be driven primarily by criminality," the statement on the Cabinet meeting of 29 May said.

Since then, however, a video emerged depicting a Somali man lying prone on a Port Elizabeth street while a mob - which included children dressed in school uniform - pelted him with stones, rocks and other heavy objects. The video momentarily shocked South Africans. Two days later, another video of a man dying at the hands of a mob in North West would emerge and a few days after that we'd learn about the Nigerian man who died at the hands of the police in Limpopo.

Life in South Africa, like outrage, is cheap.

The video of the Somali man's persecution however has incensed Somalis around the world.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed has also expressed his concerns about the treatment of Somalis in South Africa. He is reported to have engaged President Jacob Zuma at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Japan last Sunday.

Of particular concern to the Somali president was the persecution and murder of the Somali man in the video, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good.

Kamal Gutale, chief of staff in the Somali presidency, told on Monday: "The president has asked Mr Zuma and his foreign minister to look into the matter and investigate the brutal killing and violence."

Somalia's prime minister also appealed to the South African government with similar sentiments.

"I appeal to the government of the Republic of South Africa as a matter of urgency to intervene and contain this unnecessary and unfortunate violence against Somali business communities to preserve peace and stability," Abdi Farah Sharon said in an open letter to President Zuma.

"My government will vigorously work with the South African government to address these recurring problems," Sharon said in his letter, released by his office earlier this week.

According to the Somali president's chief of staff, President Zuma was unaware of the stoning to death of the Somali man in Port Elizabeth.

"At the time, President Zuma was not aware of the incident and expressed surprise," he said.

President Zuma, however, is said to have undertaken to look into the matter.

On Friday, at a press briefing at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, expressed government's "strongest condemnation of the recent attacks and killing of Somali and other foreign nationals in our country".

The minister also reiterated government's position on the attacks being criminal in nature and not being inspired by xenophobia.

"The looting, displacement and killing of foreign nationals in South Africa should not be viewed as xenophobic attacks, but opportunistic criminal acts that have the potential to undermine the unity and cohesiveness of our communities," she said. "There is no cause to justify this heinous crime."

Nkonae-Mashabane also pointed out that some 100 people had been arrested for what she described as the "recent lawlessness".

But as discontent rises among the sizeable Somali population in South Africa, nothing good can come from the rumours that Somalis are arming themselves to better defend themselves against hate crimes in South Africa.

The minister emphasised that Somalis in South Africa enjoyed the same rights as South Africans.

"In terms of our Constitution, South Africa belongs to all who live in it, and we, therefore, have been appalled and deeply saddened by the recent acts of violence against Somalis and other foreign nationals in South Africa," she said.

And as Somalis rush to point out the role their country played in the fight against Apartheid, the minister acknowledged the role of Somalis - and indeed other Africans - in the struggle against Apartheid.

"We recall the support and solidarity accorded to us during our fight against Apartheid by African people, including Somalis, and wish to express our sincere gratitude," Nkoana-Mashabane said. "As South Africa, we value our close relations with our neighbours and the rest of the African continent."

She also expressed hope that these incidents would not sour relations between South Africa and Somalia.

"Our relations with Somalia have always been cordial," the minister said. "You may recall that recently South Africa committed over a R100 million towards Somalia to build institutions of governance and capacity building."

When Nkoana-Mashabane announced that R100-million aid package to Somalia last year she , "South Africa believes it is imperative that Somalia has adequate institutions of governance that will be sustained beyond the mandate of the Transitional Federal Government [which has been succeeded by the current Somali government]."

"It is in this light that South Africa will work closely with local and international partners to ensure that Somalis are equipped to govern themselves," she added.

And it is exactly in the ability to govern themselves that lies one of the crucial tenets of the challenges of Somalis in South Africa. The continuing instability in Somalia forces hundreds of thousands of people away from their home. Somalia has been embroiled in conflict and upheaval for more than two decades, forcing refugees to flee places like South Africa. While South Africa does certainly have much to address in its own social phenomenon of violence against foreigners like Somalis, the broader implication of Somalia's instability on South Africa can also not be ignored. DM
Photo: Demostrators march against the recent wave of xenophobic attacks, in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, May 31, 2008. REUTERS/Mark Wessels

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SA government reiterates: It's crime, not xenophobia

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Video: Refugee                             This short video shows how important it is for these Syrians to get away from Syria and flee to another country as a refugee because their lives are at stake. There are putting their lives at risk to leave their country to freedom.

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Syrian Refugees: A Human Crisis Revealed in a Powerful Short Film

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Video: Immigrant                       Keithayonna Davis, in a powerful spoken word poem, outlines some of the experiences that immigrants may face as they cross over to a new country. Some themes discussed as it relates to the immigrants are as follows: capitalizing on their culture (The U.S. selling their cultural artifacts for money), fleeing oppressive conditions in their home country, forced cultural silence to seem more 'American," and harsh living conditions upon arrival.

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Video: Immigrant                       Keithayonna Davis, in a powerful spoken word poem, outlines some of the experiences that immigrants may face as they cross over to a new country. Some themes discussed as it relates to the immigrants are as follows: capitalizing on their culture (The U.S. selling their cultural artifacts for money), fleeing oppressive conditions in their home country, forced cultural silence to seem more 'American," and harsh living conditions upon arrival.

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Welcome Home? The Harsh Realities of Immigrants’ Experiences in America

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Xenophobia                     Xenophobia can best be defined as a hostility, or prejudice, against people from other countries.

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Article: Emigrate                                        This article talks about how many people in Syria are emigrating over to other countries especially the United States because of the war that is going on there and the people are desperate to leave because they don't want their life to be taken.

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The number of refugees who have fled the war in Syria now exceeds five million with millions more displaced internally, according to the UN.

Syrians have poured across their borders since anti-government protests in 2011 spiralled into a full-blown conflict between rebels, government troops, and foreign backers.

The first three months of 2017 saw more than 250,000 additional Syrians register as refugees bringing the total to 5.1 million, the UN's refugee agency UNHCR said on its website, without providing an explanation for the apparent surge.

"It's not about the number, it's about the people," said UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch, noting the conflict had now lasted longer than World War II. "We're trying to look for understanding, solidarity and humanity."

Turkey continues to host the highest number of Syrians displaced by the conflict - nearly three million people. It saw an increase of 47,000 more refugees since February, Baloch said.
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The five-million milestone came a year to the day after UNHCR asked other countries to start resettling at least 10 percent of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees. So far only 250,000 places have been offered.

"We're asking for more legal pathways for Syrians to travel to other countries so that they don't end up dying in the seas like in the Mediterranean," said Baloch.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Geneva, said the "enormity and colossal suffering" of the refugees is evident from the UNHCR report.

The total number of Syrian refugees abroad stood at 4.6 million at the end of 2015 and rose to 4.85 million by the end of last year, according to the agency's data.

The agency estimated another 6.3 million people have been internally displaced.

Financial aid falling short

Lebanon has more than one million Syrian refugees, while Jordan has 657,000, with others spread across Iraq, Egypt and other North African countries.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, said the actual number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is much higher than the official figure, with more people streaming into the country in the last few weeks.

He said most of the new arrivals have not yet registered with the UN, and shortages of food and water is common.

War-torn Iraq also hosts 233,224 Syrian refugees in the Kurdish north.

Iraq itself has an estimated 3.5 million people internally displaced, according to Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from east of Mosul.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have also fled to Europe, but not all have been granted refugee status.

Syrians have also fled to Europe in large numbers, making 884,461 asylum claims between April 2011 and October 2016. Almost two-thirds of the claims were in Germany and Sweden.

Hundreds of thousands more live in Gulf countries that are not party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, so they are not recorded as refugees.

A UN-led humanitarian appeal to help Syrian refugees and support host communities has received only six percent of the money needed this year - $298mn out of $4.6bn target.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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The number of refugees who have fled the war in Syria now exceeds five million with millions more displaced internally, according to the UN. Syrians have poured across their borders since anti-government protests in 2011 spiralled into a full-blown conflict between rebels, government troops, and foreign backers.

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Immigrant                                        An immigrant can be defined as someone who comes to live permanently in another country.

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Immigrant                                        An immigrant can be defined as someone who comes to live permanently in another country.