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    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    33 : Flight to Freedom: Third Country Re-settlement Option for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal

    Nishchal N. Pandey

    16 January 2008

    The first plane-load of the refugees could be arriving in the United States around the later part of January 2008', said Ellen Sauerbery, United States Assistant Secretary at the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, during her trip to Nepal on 1 November 2007. She was referring to 106,000 Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, 60,000 of whom the United States has agreed to re-settle on its shores.