The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution. Basically a person who has been forced from their homes due to war, religious persecution, or other dangerous situations. At the beginning of 2006, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that there were 8,400,000 refugees in the world. Since then that number has only risen, due to war in parts of the world as well as devastating natural disasters. Through this blog I hope to gain an insight into the lives of refugees. What do they do in foreign countries, how do they live, what sort of problems do they face? In this way I hope to gain a cultural insight into a people who are forced to leave their homes and enter into a different life altogether. Another question I hope to answer is, how do refugees affect the existing culture that they enter into?