"Warehousing"

This article on refugees is rather disturbing.

More than seven million of the world's nearly 12 million refugees have been "warehoused" in dangerous border areas or urban slums without regard to their basic human rights for 10 or more years, according to the 2004 "World Refugee Survey" released Monday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR). ...

With hundreds of thousands of Afghans having returned home in the wake of the Taliban's ouster in late 2001, the largest number of refugees in the world as of the end of 2003 was Palestinian – some three million, divided between the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East which, as a result, holds 37 percent of the world's total number of refugees.

Africa ranks second with about 3.2 million refugees, or 27 percent of the total, followed by South and Central Asia (1.9 million, most of whom are Afghans in Pakistan); East Asia and the Pacific (953,000), Europe (884,000), and the Americas (543,000 – or only about five percent of the nearly 12 million throughout the world).