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other countries in the region. This has largely been rejected by the countries concerned, which anticipate difficulties in absorbing refugees whose ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds differ from their
some have expressed reduced economic prosperity and domestic overcrowding problems. Another constraint has been the understanding, arising from the 1979 Geneva conference, that first asylum countries should not be left with a residual case load of refugees. There have been exceptions in that Hong Kong and Thailand have accepted for permanent resettlement considerable numbers of Vietnamese and Laotians, despite the risk of encouraging further influxes.
Resettlement in third countries. The United States is the first preference for the majority of refugees and 628,000 have been resettled there. Other countries have provided places as follows since 1975:
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