Stateless Tibetans Resettle in Canada by a Unique Project

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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30-year-old Tenzin Zeden, who have been stateless since the time she was born, recently arrived in Toronto with hopes of having a chance at citizenship of her own for the first time in her life. She originally belongs to Tibet but fled as refugees in the early 1960s and grew up in north-eastern India while working as a nurse in Delhi for six years. However, she never held Indian citizenship, or any other country, until she was welcomed by the members of the Tibetan community in Toronto.

Having a unique agreement with the Canadian government, Zedan has become one of the almost 1,000 displaced Tibetans who are anticipated to soon resettle in Canada before the spring of 2016. The program will soon bring ten more occupants to Toronto on Saturday. Director of the Project Tibet Society, Nima Dorjee, mentioned that “this is the very first of this kind of project. It’s a whole new direction in how immigration or refugees or sponsorships happen and work.”

The Project Tibet Society is aimed at facilitating resettlements in Canada by helping displaced or stateless people, like Zeden, who do not fall under the traditional definition of refugee. A rarely used section of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act has helped all these stateless peoples to find home in Canada. Dorjee elucidated that “(this section is) available for groups of people who act like refugees, who function like refugees, who are otherwise like a refugee, but do not fit under the narrow definition of a conventional refugee.”

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