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Most stay abroad for many years in limbo, unable to go home and unable to resettle and work.","They don’t realize that a majority of refugees are stuck in limbo for a very long time, unable to go home and unable to resettle and work. ","Source: UNHCR","UNHCR defines a protracted refugee situation as one in which 25,000 or more refugees from the same nationality have been in exile for at least five consecutive years in a given host country. Therefore, it doesn’t include groups who may have been in exile for more than five years but whose numbers do not reach 25,000. Also, if people return home or new people join their countrymen in exile, they still count in the figures of those who are in exile, so the definition does not then take into account the situation of individual refugees. If we say that 25,000 people from one country have been in another country for 25 years, it doesn’t mean all of those 25,000 have been there that entire time.\nDespite the limitations of the data, the four independent experts we spoke to considered it a good measure of long-term refugee situations and agreed that our correct answer was indeed correct.\n\n[1]  [UNHCR - Mid-year trends 2024](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unhcr.org\u002Fmid-year-trends-report-2024) \n\n[1]  [UNHCR data finder](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unhcr.org\u002Frefugee-statistics\u002Fdownload\u002F?url=sH5pnE) ","The majority of refugees are not in need of temporary solutions. They want opportunities to earn their own living. Their children need schools and higher education. But they are often denied these chances to earn their own future, because people keep thinking it’s a temporary situation. For most of them it is NOT!\n\nA majority of refugees are stuck in limbo for a very long time. In the middle of 2024, of the  refugees which were covered by the UN’s refugee division (which doesn’t include Palestinians, Venezuelans displaced abroad and asylum seekers), two-thirds had been in that situation for more than 4 years, unable to return home and most of them are not allowed to work in the country they lived in. Instead they were forced to receive support from their host country, even if they wanted to work.\n\nAccording to [UNHCR’s 2024 mid-year trends](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unhcr.org\u002Fmid-year-trends-report-2024): There were a total of 59 protracted situations in 37 different host countries. Some of the protracted situations are relatively recent, such as the ongoing displacement of refugees from Venezuela in Colombia, while others such as Somali refugees in Kenya have been in prolonged displacement for decades.\n\n### Why is it a problem to be wrong about this? \nIn general people believe refugees need temporary solutions because they assume that most refugees leave their country for a short period of time only. But most are stuck in refugee status for a long time. When planning refugee services, knowing the amount of time people are realistically going to spend under this status is important. There is no quick fix!\n\n### Why are so many wrong about this?\nThe refugees who flee their country often do it quickly after an urgent situation and a sudden need to escape and find a temporary solution arises. Probably none of them have the intention to stay away for long. When the media reports about refugees, they tend to focus on the refugees in humanitarian crises, those who are in a temporary situation and in need of urgent aid. They can report about these situations in conjunction with their reports about ongoing conflicts, which are easy to attract attention to. But we seldom see reports from the long-term refugee settlements where people live for decades.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, the four independent experts we spoke to considered it a good measure of long-term refugee situations and agreed that our correct answer was indeed correct.","Refuge is not temporary","You totally underestimate how long refugees are in exile. Most stay abroad for many years in limbo, before they can go back home, or they are allowed to resettle."]