ABSTRACT
The world is awash with refugees. What was a trickle a few decades back has become a mass outpouring of people across international borders. The Economist, in its issue of 23 December 1989, paints a graphic and grim picture of the magnitude of problems facing the world refugee community in general, and those in the Third World in particular. Today there are some fifteen million refugees in the world. Contrary to the myth often held in the West, the vast majority of the refugees are in Asia and Africa and are not seeking greener pastures in the West. Most refugees prefer to return to their countries of origin to settlement elsewhere. But, while waiting for that day when all their woes will end, they encounter many problems.
