Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted...
But the doors are closing. Everywhere barriers are going up to keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality...
The challenge is to change gradually the prejudices that these regimes have cynically cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for...
Accustomed to the godlike treatment accorded surgeons, Koop was stunned by the viciousness of Washington, which has neither gods nor heroes. Every day he would go to his temporary office on the seventh floor at the Department of Health and Human Services. Every day the phone wouldn't ring. His...
That touched off one of the bloodiest incidents since Palestinians began their intifadeh in December 1987. Villagers said their tempers had flared earlier in the week when Jewish settlers uprooted trees in the area and Israeli soldiers patrolling the rural village shouted obscenities at local women. When word spread of...