Fedasil brings together all partners to look back on ten years of resettlement in Belgium
Since 2013, Belgium has already resettled more than 4,500 refugees. To celebrate the importance of the program, Fedasil organised today an event bringing together key national and international partners such as the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, UNHCR, IOM, Foreign Affairs, the Immigration Office and Caritas International.
Since 2013, Belgium has a structural resettlement program with an annual quota. Over the period 2013-2022, Belgium resettled 4,501 refugees through the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). This involves mainly Syrians from the neighbouring Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and Congolese from the Great Lakes region.
Today, Thursday 5 October, Fedasil invited all the players to Brussels to look back together over the last 10 years. Peter Robberecht, head of cabinet of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor, stressed that the resettlement of refugees is challenging today due to the high number of asylum seekers and the lack of reception places, but that it offers a safe and legal way to come to Europe and an alternative to human trafficking networks.
For further information on the different resettlement phases and the role played by the different partners, please visit this page. For other information on the event organised by Fedasil, please read this press article in French or Dutch.