In the summer of 2008, Kiribati officials asked Australia and New Zealand to accept Kiribati citizens as permanent refugees.

Instead, they kept them in the status of permanent refugees because the demeaning camps are incubators of hatred of Israel.

We've got enough, what looks like permanent refugees, and we're trying to do something about that in various areas.

Displaced Kosovars evoke comparisons to the plight of the Palestinians and the problems of permanent refugees.

YET another specter is haunting Europe, and not just Europe this time: the specter of the permanent refugee.

In fact, millions of people around the world have become permanent refugees or, at best, have found new lives in a new diaspora.

Still, "permanent refugees" pose daunting challenges not only to relief groups but to the states that might accommodate them.

However, not all those leaving Romania could be regarded as permanent refugees; the news agency Rompres reported in February that some refugees were beginning to return home.

This, too, caused major upheavals, and a million permanent refugees rushed the motherland, aggravating the shortage of housing and jobs.

As permanent refugees, it is not easy for them to get jobs or own property.