Refugees like the Dacka family are finding it hard to land permanent jobs and get state support to settle in. Monday, July 25, 2016 Syria refugees welcomed in recession-hit BrazilOriginally from Idlib, in northwest Syria, Khaled Dacka, second from right, arrived in Brazil last year under the government’s humanitarian visa programme, where he and the rest of the family, including daughter Hanan (far right), have now been granted asylum. Some 2,100 Syrian refugees live in Brazil, mostly in the country’s most populous city of São Paulo. “For this reason, the situation for those who are arriving in Brazil, the immigrants, the refugees in particular, is complicated,” he said. She was chosen by the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee after her name was put forward by the UN refugee agency in Brazil.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 25, 2016 03:58 UTC