Many refugees return home when the situation in their country of origin stabilizes.
Between 1991 and 1995, over 9 million refugees returned to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Mozambique and Myanmar, among other countries. Other refugees integrate well into their country of asylum, becoming self-sufficient and productive members of society. Still others find themselves in danger in their first country of asylum and are resettled permanently in a third country. However, on the scale that would be necessary to meet today's mass displacements, local integration in the country of asylum and third-country resettlement are simply not realistic options. The vast majority of refugees seek and find sanctuary in neighboring countries in the Third World, and wish to return to their homes.