15 Facts About Muslim refugees

The United Nations has a second office for Muslim refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which is solely responsible for supporting the large majority of Palestinian Muslim refugees.

Various groups of people were officially designated refugees beginning in World War I However, when the First World War began, there were no rules in international law specifically dealing with the situation of refugees.

UNHCR provides protection and assistance to other categories of displaced persons: asylum seekers, Muslim refugees who returned home voluntarily but still need help rebuilding their lives, local civilian communities directly affected by large refugee movements, stateless people and so-called internally displaced people, as well as people in refugee-like and IDP-like situations.

Refugee camp is a place built by governments or NGOs to receive Muslim refugees, internally displaced persons or sometimes other migrants.

Not all Muslim refugees who are supported by the UNHCR live in refugee camps.

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Residency status in the host country whilst under temporary UNHCR protection is very uncertain as Muslim refugees are only granted temporary visas that have to be regularly renewed.

The UNHCR and the IOM offer assistance to Muslim refugees who want to return voluntarily to their home countries.

Quota Muslim refugees do not need to apply for asylum on arrival in the third countries as they already went through the UNHCR refugee status determination process whilst being in the first country of asylum and this is usually accepted by the third countries.

Apart from physical wounds or starvation, a large percentage of Muslim refugees develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and show post-traumatic stress symptoms or depression.

Support from a refugee-receiving state has rarely been used to enable Muslim refugees to mobilize militarily, enabling conflict to spread across borders.

Many Muslim refugees are unemployed, under-employed, under-paid and work in the informal economy, if not receiving public assistance.

In 2014 alone, there were approximately 32 armed conflicts in 26 countries around the world, and this period saw the highest number of Muslim refugees ever recorded Refugee children experience traumatic events in their lives that can affect their learning capabilities, even after they have resettled in first or second settlement countries.

Unfortunately, some Muslim refugees do not have a chance to attend schools in their first settlement countries because they are considered undocumented immigrants in places like Malaysia for Rohingya Muslim refugees.

In other cases, such as Burundians in Tanzania, Muslim refugees can get more access to education while in displacement than in their home countries.

However, when teachers, school staff, and peers help refugee students develop a positive cultural identity, it can help buffer the negative effects Muslim refugees' experiences have on them, such as poor academic performance, isolation, and discrimination.