Im/migration Agency Report

 

A.        Title of agency or organization? The Office of Refugee Resettlement                
B.        Where is home base (city/state/country)? Washington D.C.
C.        Date founded? 
1980
D.        Names of key spokespersons/officers:
Dr. Nguyen Van Hanh Director
E.        What/who is key constituency or audience? Refugees in Need of aid

F.        What are the agency’s main activities? Help refugees by providing assistance and services to make a better live.

G.        Mission statement?

“ORR Mission

Refugees come to the United States for protection from persecution and in search of freedom, peace, and opportunity for themselves and their families. The mission of the Office of Refugee Resettlement is to help refugees, Cuban/Haitian entrants, asylees, and other beneficiaries of our program to establish a new life that is founded on the dignity of economic self-support and encompasses full participation in opportunities which Americans enjoy. The challenge for this office is to use the funds it administers to best fulfill that mission in a manner that supports and builds upon refugees' aspirations.”

 

H.      What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency? Any refugee that make a better life in America
I.        As best as you can determine, on what evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.?  The ORR
provides the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved (ORR) report forms for all federal grants, including Formula, Discretionary, and Match Grant. Also they provide Annual Reports to Congress

J.        Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give links).

Nothing specific to the origination I could find.   

K.        Give at least one citation about this agency from a newspaper article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation index to research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the Migration Course Web Page made by the Fletcher Library: http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html Briefly state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of this agency’s perspective on im/migration. Note: not a quote from agency’s own web site!

 

An article I found from LexisNexis, written October 4, 2005,  is about the Neighborhood House in St. Paul  receiving a grant from the ORR to assist newly arriving refugees from Hmong and East

Africa. “The fact that an Office of Refugee Resettlement exists attests to Congress's commitment to continuing our nation's tradition of being a land of hope and opportunity for all people, said Dan H. Hoxworth, President of Neighborhood House.”

 

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L.        Any other issues of interest about the agency? Not really.
M.        Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? They are Pro immigration
N.        Web site? Give URL      http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/index.htm