[Steve Bildermann]

Er... Shouldn't this thread photo

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2894&highlight=

be in this thread post.

Did it leak?

[Taro Toporific]

Japan's refugee policies failing
...Erbil Suleyman has never read the Czech writer Franz Kafka, but he should...Kurdish refugee Erbil Suleyman has been "trapped" in Japan since November 1998.
. ...Five years after touching down here, he is still wriggling on a very short Immigration Bureau leash.
"I realize now I came to the wrong country."

I'll have a "word put in" for the poor FG, Eribil Suleyman, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs next week. My deshi/groupie will be doing a presentation at the MoFA and she'll report back on the rest-of-the-story on this Kafkaesque tale. As last night's email from her in Kabul reveals...

I'm leaving for Japan on 30th for 10 days now. It was originally 7 days and they told me to go to UNICEF Tokyo office and National Committee. Yesterday, UNICEF Tokyo suggested me to attend several meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and today the latter asked me to do the presentation on Afghanistan and Iraq to them and main donors... I bet it has to be in japanese... I've been working on a report for them in english. It is going to be a fundraising trip from hell.

If anyone else on the FG Forum has refugee issues in Japan that need addressing, I could have them worked into that presentation to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since I will be ghost writing it).

[American Oyaji]

Family at risk as dad locked up

They were managing to scratch out a life for themselves in Japan, where Erdal worked as a demolition laborer on day-wages, until the authorities told them their asylum applications had been rejected and took them both into custody.

"We had left the children with friends before we went to the immigration center and when they heard what happened they brought the children to the center to tell us they couldn't look after them while we were locked up. So I was released."

That is so messed up. Why take him into custody. It's not like he was causing problems. I hate beauracratic numbskulls who don't have the mind of a flea.

Same thing happened in the U.S. after 9/11. Some wives husbands were killed and suddenly INS wants to arrest them or ship them someplace, even though their children have never lived anywhere else.

This world needs Jesus.

[kamome]

If anyone else on the FG Forum has refugee issues in Japan that need addressing, I could have them worked into that presentation to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since I will be ghost writing it).

Can one be a refugee from Japan and still live in Japan? I think I fall into that category.

[Taro Toporific]

[Steve Bildermann]

The last pargraph speaks (no I take that back, it SHOUTS) for itself.

It has been said that this one factor has kept Japan from gaining it's 'diplomatic holy grail' a permanent seat on the security council of the UN.

In response to the mass outflow of Indo-Chinese refugees in the first half of 1979, Japan acceded to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees on October 3, 1981, and then to the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees on January 1, 1982. Each treaty came into force on the respective dates. In acceding to these treaties, Japan amended the Immigration Control Order to establish a recognition system for refugee status and changed the title to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, which came into force in January 1982.

Persons recognized as being refugees are given the same benefits under the social security system as provided to Japanese citizens and other foreign nationals. In addition, such persons enjoy protection relating to entry into, departure from, and staying in Japan.


Refugees recognized by Japan under the above-mentioned Convention and Protocol:
265 persons, from January 1982 to January 2001

[American Oyaji]

Steve, where did you take that article from?

[Steve Bildermann]

At the source of all FG knowledge (nb fg=fucking gaijin)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Web Site

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/refugee/japan.html