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More than 120,000 Ukrainian refugees have sought refugee status in Ireland since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022.

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“We have now decided to narrow the support to only vulnerable refugees,” Geoffrey Mugabe, a senior official in the Ugandan prime minister’s office, said.

A majority of the population of the modern-day Gaza Strip descended from refugees of the Nakba.

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Then we flew north to Poland, where a little church with a big heart had taken in 60 Ukrainian refugees who had fled the war.

Additionally, when calculating net migration, only countries which include asylum seekers or refugees in their immigration figures are included, these are:

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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