New data published by the UNHCR, the United Nations Agency for Refugees, shows that, although the number of forced migrations has reached record heights worldwide, in 2018 only 4.7 percent of the necessary reintegrations were carried out globally.
This is how much emerges from the data reported this month regarding the numbers of refugees facilitated by the UNHCR: of the 1.2 million refugees who were estimated to need to be reintegrated in 2018, only 55,692 were able to actually do so.
The main number of people sent for reintegration facilitated by the UNHCR comes from the countries that receive the largest number of refugees, including Lebanon (9,800), followed by Turkey (9,000), Jordan (5,100) and Uganda (4,000).
Of a total of 81,310 cases targeted for reintegration, the main number of refugees came from the Arab Republic of Syria (28,200), the Democratic Republic of Congo (21,800), Eritrea (4,300) and Afghanistan (4,000).
Last year, 68 percent of the calls were for people exposed to violence and torture, people with specific legal and physical needs, and women and children at risk. Oltre la metà, il 52 per cent, di tutte le domande di reinsediamento trattate nel 2018 era per minori.
Reintegration, which provides for the relocation of refugees from a country of asylum to a country that has agreed to take them in and grant them permanent asylum, is only accessible to a small fraction of refugees worldwide. In general, less than one percent of the 19.9 million refugees assisted by the UNHCR worldwide can take advantage of this possibility.
Resettlement remains a life-saving measure that ensures the protection of those most at risk. It represents a protection instrument and a tangible mechanism that allows governments and communities around the world to share responsibility in responding to the crises linked to forced migration. Reintegration, along with other complementary channels of legal entry, represents a key objective of the Global Compact on Refugees to contribute to reducing the impact of the worst refugee crises in the host countries.
In 2019, it is estimated that 1.4 million refugees currently living in 65 different countries on a global scale will be rehabilitated.
Among the populations most in need of reinsertion this year are the Syrian refugees currently living in various countries in the Middle East and Turchia (43 percent) and the refugees in the countries of asylum and transit along the central Mediterranean route (22 percent), where migration to Europe continues to kill a devastating number of victims.
The Global Compact on Refugees urges states to make a larger number of reintegration posts available, either by expanding existing programs or by setting up new ones.
Currently, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is working with States and partners to develop a three-year Strategy for Rehabilitation and Complementary Channels (Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways) to help increase the number of posts available for reintegration, convince more countries to take part in global efforts to strengthen reintegration programs, and improve access to the complementary channels available to refugees.
Further information on the UNHCR's reintegration program for 2018 is available at this link: https://www.unhcr.org/5c594ddf4. The UNHCR Portal with global data on reintegration and statistics from 2003 is available at the following link: https://rsq.unhcr.org/
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