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nationals are sometimes reluctant to fill and there are the handicapped some of whom can become self-supporting after their rehabilitation, while others cannot, and thus must depend for their livelihood on their family or the state. Such handicaps are at times the result of torture and other hardships to which these persons have been exposed. Cutting across all these categories are the "emergency cases" persons of varied socio-economic and professional backgrounds and ages who must urgently leave the country to which they fled. For them special admission procedures are required to enable their swift departure from places where they feel in danger or from which it is imperative to remove them. In such cases the processing can no longer follow the pattern described but should be based on a summary procedure.
It is hoped that countries participating in a concerted international effort to solve the problem of refugee resettlement will admit persons of concern to UNHCR falling under the various categories referred to above, off- setting the emerging of a "hard core" group unwanted by all selectors.
It is submitted that if refugee applicants meet the ordinary immigration criteria and there are many who do they could be admitted as normal immigrants, hopefully with a certain priority over those who have not experienced the risks, the lack of freedom, and the unwholesome psycho- logical and other conditions to which refugees and displaced persons are frequently exposed. To those who cannot qualify as normal immigrants, special resettlement quotas can bring hope that some country, of those willing to consider their applications on humanitarian grounds, will open its doors to them through liberalized admission criteria.