International Law On The Status Of Refugees & Stateless Persons In South Asia: An Introduction With Judicial, Statistics References
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Refugees, South Asia, Stateless PersonsAbstract
Asia is the largest refugee-hosting continent of the world. South Asia hosts the fourth largest number of refugee population of the world. It hosts refugees from within and outside the region. The refugee producing States in the region are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The refugee hosting States are India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. As per UNHCR report as on January 2014, Afghanistan hosted 16,863 refugees and produced 2, 556,556 refugees in the region. Bhutan produced 31,734 refugees and asylum seekers. Sri Lanka hosts 145 refugees and 1,607 asylum seekers, and it has generated 123,088 refugees and 16,158 asylum seekers. Maldives has produced 31 refugees and 25 asylum seekers. India hosts 192,070 refugees from Tibet, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and other countries like Africa and Arab states. Pakistan hosts 1,616,507 refugees and 5,386 asylum seekers from Afghanistan and some refugees from Iraq, Somalia, Iran and other countries and it sends 48,867 refugees and 46,517 asylum seekers from its land. Nepal hosts 46,305 refugees and 236 asylum seekers from Tibet and Bhutan. Bangladesh hosts 231,145 refugees but as per government estimates the population to be between 300,000 and 500,000.
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