Document #1035482
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Please find attached two documents that
briefly describe refugee determination in Eastern Caribbean states.
Both reports state that the few persons requesting asylum or
refugee status in the islands of the Eastern Caribbean undergo a
review or interview by a United Nations official acting on behalf
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Additional and/or corroborating information could not be found
among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Attachments
World Refugee Report. September
1989. Prepared by the Bureau for Refugee Programs. Washington, DC:
United States Department of State, p. 77.
_____. September 1988. Prepared by the
Bureau for Refugee Programs. Washington, DC: United States
Department of State, p. 53.
Bulletin of the International
Commission of Jurists [Geneva]. Monthly.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices. Yearly. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S.
Government Printing Office.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Yearly. New
York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Documentation-Réfugiés [Paris]. Weekly.
Encyclopedia of the Third World.
1992. Edited by George Thomas Kurian. New York: Facts on File
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Reports. Daily.
Human Rights Watch World Report.
Yearly. New York: Human Rights Watch.
Immigration and Nationality: Law and
Practice [London]. Quarterly. Tolley Publishing Company.
International Journal of Refugee
Law [Oxford, UK]. Monthly.
Keesing's Record of World Events.
Yearly. Edited by Roger East. London: Longman.
World Refugee Survey [Washington,
DC]. Yearly.
Available laws and constituions.
Material from the Indexed Media
Review (IMR) or country files containing articles and reports
from diverse sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the
Weekly Media Review.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
On-line searches of news articles.
Note on contacting foreign diplomatic representatives in
Canada:
Embassies and high commissions are not
usually called for security-related questions such as location of
military bases or the functioning of secret services. Ability to
obtain information from diplomatic representatives depends on
availability of information and cooperation from individual
countries.