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Jeanne Carstensen

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, "Foreign Policy," The World, "The Nation, Salon," "Nautilus," and The Global Post, among other outlets. She covered the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece, Turkey and Europe with support from the Pulitzer Center and was short-listed for the Immigration Journalism Awards. Carstensen has been awarded fellowships at the Logan Nonfiction Program, National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University, and Mesa Refuge, where she was the Peter Barnes Long-form Journalism honoree. Previously, she was managing editor of Salon and The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Born in Portland, Oregon, Carstensen has lived in France, Greece and Costa Rica, where she was a shortwave radio producer and translator. She lives in San Francisco.Her book, "A Greek Tragedy: Twenty-Four Hours, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis," will be published by Atria/One Signal Publishers in 2024.Photo by Marissa Leshnov.
Patrice Quélard in Saint-Nazaire, France. In 2016, Quélard co-founded the Citizen’s Initiative to Help the Refugees of Saint Nazaire. The city has welcomed around 200 refugees as part of the EU’s relocation program.
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This small French city wants to be a good home for refugees
Members of the Noh family in Ritsona refugee camp in Greece in May 2016.
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This Yazidi family escaped genocide in Iraq. Their next challenge is building a life in France.
Christa Schmidt at the table in her apartment in Traunreut where she tutors refugees in German. Schmidt’s parents were German refugees from Romania.
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A small German city finds it’s not easy welcoming hundreds of Syrian refugees
Wesam Daas, left, with Carnival revelers in Altenmarkt, Bavaria.
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After fleeing Palmyra, this Syrian family is trying to find home in small-town Germany
An Afghan family walks toward the Hungary-Serbia border on the day the new law takes effect.  They will live in a detention center until a decision is made on their claim.
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‘How will I live there?’ Asylum seekers in Hungary are detained in shipping containers.
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Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe
A Syrian refugee in northern Greece
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Syrian refugees are now paying smugglers to take them back
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Refugees lose the little they have left in Lesbos detention center blaze
Salim Noah plays guitar
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For Yazidis in Greece, safety and security are still out of reach
Renna Ramadan prepared an iftar meal for her family, Syrians from Idlib who hoped to reach Northern Europe but instead are living in the passenger waiting area at Piraeus Port Terminal 1 in Athens, Greece. Several hundred refugees and migrants remain at P
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Muslim refugees stuck in Greece miss home more than ever during Ramadan
Makmoud Nakarch rolls out dough in order to make Syrian flatbread in his bakery under a cargo train parked at Idomeni Camp.
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The fortune-telling baker who predicted a camp’s end
Immigrants leaving Idomeni camp earlier this week in an attempt to cross illegally into Macedonia in order to continue their journey toward Western Europe.
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Idomeni refugee camp may be emptying, but trauma of crisis is far from over
Moa'yad Al Saur, 20, from Damsacus, Syria, moved into a train parked at Idomeni station. He studied economics in Syria but fled because he didn't want to fight in the Syrian Army. His brother arrived in Germany already and his parents are still in Syria.
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Trapped in Greece, these refugees wait, just before another frontier
Ali Jaffari and his wife, Wajiha, and son Shayan
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For long-suffering refugees, a three-star respite
Information about filters at a distribution center table
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One reason undocumented immigrants didn’t learn about Flint’s lead poisoning sooner: There wasn’t much in Spanish
Volunteers deliver water in Flint
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From Lesbos to Flint — an Islamic relief group helps the poor get safe water
Dr. Zoi Livaditou (R) greets Dr. Shimrit Eliyah of Israid in Skala Sykaminia, Lesbos, Greece. Dr. Andreas Iliadis looks on.
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On Lesbos, a courageous doctor struggles to save Syrian refugees and help locals
An Iraqi man mourns his wife on the beach on Lesbos on October 15, 2015.
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How one Syrian refugee wound up bringing his dying wife with him to Greece
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The cemeteries on Lesbos are full. But refugee families still need to bury their dead.
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Lethal farce in Aegean Sea continues as another refugee boat sinks off Lesbos
Constantina Mesisklis, center, and two friends at Skala Sykaminia in Lesbos, Greece.
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On Lesbos, today’s refugees are met by the children of refugees from a century ago
A relief worker walks among refugees in Lesbos
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From one refugee to another: ‘study, get educated — then come help the people’
The ancient Theatre of Assos overlooking the Aegean Sea, with the nearby island of Lesbos on the horizon, at right.
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This beautiful Turkish tourist town is now home to boats stuffed with refugees and migrants headed for Lesbos
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‘Please, have some tea.’ For refugees, civility before danger.
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Landfall. A selfie. Another refugee celebrates survival.