Due to existing widespread persecution of the country of origin, human rights violations, and existing conflicts, the numbers of asylum-seekers are still high. The existing complexity of refugee resettlement, which is often carried out without appropriate funding and staffing and has a large amount of information to be evaluated before making a decision, can result in prolonged stays in refugee resettlement facilities. These processes in themselves require information exchange across the globe as well detailed planning of different aspects of refugee resettlement and location capacities. In many cases, after granting protection in a specific country, there is little interest in the impact of the placement location in the country.
When discussing refugee resettlement, an important question is how many refugees the country can support because the resources are not unlimited. For example, in 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported 20.4 million asylum-seekers, 1,44 million of those were considered for resettlement. However, only 56 thousand were resettled (Trapp et al., 2021). Most of the refugees are from the Syrian Arab Republic, Afghanistan, Venezuela, South Sudan, and Myanmar. In addition, there is a fair share of countries that resettle refugees, such as Turkey, the United States, Germany, and Sweden. However, in the refugee resettlement process, most countries, thus far, have paid little to no attention to the impact of specific locations on the refuge.