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Welcome to COR Center’s Web site

Visit us often: we regularly update and enhance our Web site content. Click here for a guide to the site.

Overseas
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Learn about U.S. cultural orientation around the world.

New! More lesson plans in the Overseas CO Provider Toolkit, and an index by program.

See the Overseas CO Program Highlight on Eritrean refugees in Shimelba, Ethiopia, along with other populations we have previously profiled.

US Resettlement
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Learn about orientation provided to refugees in the United States.

Also, access the Domestic Service Providers Toolkit, containing CO resources on numerous topics for domestic resettlement professionals.
Top Resources for Service Providers

New! Expanded Overseas Service Provider Toolkit

The Overseas Service Provider Toolkit has been expanded by nearly 50%, with more lesson plans and resources to come. Also new, an index by program, so that visitors can get a sense of the CO offered in particular locations.

Welcome Guidebooks in Various Languages Available for Download

The Welcome Guidebook is now available for free download, in PDF format, in English, Amharic, Arabic, Farsi, Karen, Kirundi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Swahili. (Coming soon: Nepali)

Go to the Welcome guide page for downloads and for information on ordering hard copies of the Welcome guide in these and other languages.

Refugee WomanCOR Center Resource Package: Refugees from Iraq

Explore the variety of COR Center
resources designed to assist in the resettlement and adjustment of refugees from Iraq.

Refugees from Iraq: Enhanced Refugee Backgrounder

Read or download a publication providing in-depth information about refugees from Iraq. Topics include history, conditions in countries of asylum, characteristics of the refugee population, cultural features of each of the different ethnic and religious communities, religion, language, education, and resettlement considerations.

Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal: Refugee Backgrounder #4 and supplement

Read or download an overview of the incoming Bhutanese refugees, written to help U.S. resettlement workers prepare for the refugees’ arrival and resettlement needs, and a supplemental document about additional considerations for the resettlement of Bhutanese refugees.

Also, access the COR Center's Backgrounders on the 1972 Burundians, the Kunama, and the Banyamulenge Tutsi.

Refugees from Burma: Their Backgrounds and Refugee Experiences

This profile provides information about the diverse histories, cultures, and refugee experiences of the refugees from Burma, with a focus on the Burmans, the Karen and their various subgroups, and the Chin.  Learn more.

Refugee Families and Refugee Youth Orientation Videos

COR Center’s orientation videos, A New Day: Refugee Families in the United States, and Be Who You Are: Refugee Youth in the United States are available. Learn more.

Featured Publications
Refugee Arrivals Statistics

Find FY2010 statistics for refugee admissions to the U.S., by region and country, as of October 31, 2009.

Find final FY2009 statistics, as of September 30, 2009.

View final FY2008 statistics, as of September 30, 2008.

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