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As the widespread dispersal of Syrian refugees and asylum-seekers cycle continues, Antonio Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) warned that over 100,000 refugee children born in exile, children born from families living in a country for political reasons, are at risk of statelessness due to the ongoing unrest of Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime, limiting the rights of receiving proper legal documentation. The extreme measures that the refugee families are taking to get proper documents ranges from paying several thousand dollars to a regime-sanctioned lawyer to relying on other refugees to get tips and options to register (Soguel, D. The Christian Science Monitor, 2015). In order to prevent fraud and
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What Is The Difference Between A Refugee And Asylum-seeker?
Under the U.S. law, a refugee is someone who is located outside of the United States, is of special humanitarian concern to the United States, demonstrates that they were persecuted or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group, is not firmly resettled in another country, and is admissible to the United States (U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2015, Refugees, p.1). A Syrian refugee may need humanitarian relief aid providing food, healthcare, and education for their families.
An Asylum-seeker as defined under U.S law explains that an asylum seeker seeks protection because they have suffered persecution or fear that they will suffer persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, and political opinion (U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2015, Asylum, p.1). A Syrian asylum-seeker may have fled due to the violent acts committed by the government security forces under Bashar al-Assad as well as the Islamic Extremists groups, the Islamic State, surrounded in Northeast