refugee

Sotomayor Invokes WWII Era Korematsu Case to Repudiate Travel Ban
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The Political Price of Betting on Immigration
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The Migrant Detention Business is More Profitable Than You Think
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Arts, Culture & Media
We’ll Always Have Casablanca
EMILY is a livesafing device being used to safe refugee and migrants found at sea.
Conflict
It’s a buoy, it’s a life raft, it’s Emily — the robotic craft that’s saving refugees off the coast of Greece
Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "
Conflict
Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.
A U.S. flag hangs over fake palm trees inside the compound of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in 2011.
Conflict
Translators who worked for the US military in Iraq wonder if their American dream is slipping away
Das
Culture
Some persecuted writers get a new life in the US. But exile isn’t easy.
Devastation in Syria, Cybersecurity, The Evolution of Glam
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Zozan Khaled Musa, 25
Conflict
This Syrian’s decision to pass as a non-refugee came at a personal cost
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
Books
Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience
Amira, who married at 16, says she faced severe abuse at the hands of her husband and found it difficult to escape.
Justice
The refugee crisis is turning more girls into child brides
#OscarsSoWhite, Gang Life to College Life, Inside a Refugee Camp
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses after recording her New Year's speech in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2015.
Conflict
The refugee crisis was the story of the year in 2015. And that story is far from over.
Filming the Police, Life After Vietnam, and A Culinary Computer
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Filming the Police, Life After Vietnam, and A Culinary Computer
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Syrians asylum seeker, Nawras Soukhta travel by train during a three-year journey to escape his country and live a better life in Sweden.
Conflict
The long journey Syrian refugees take is confusing. Now imagine doing it as a teenager.
EU leaders have committed extra ships, planes and helicopters to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit. More than 1,300 migrants have died in April 2015.
Justice
Destroying smugglers’ boats won’t fix the Mediterranean refugee crisis, this man says
Men in orange jumpsuits purported to be Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State (IS) are marched by armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli, in this still image from an undated video made available on social media on February 15, 201
Conflict
Italy is seeking UN intervention in Libya after jihadist terror threat
Safi Haso, about 70 years old, from Girik village of Kobani. "We are probably the last generation that has tattoos," she says. "All Kurdish women had them." In addition to facial, hand and neck tattoos, Haso has tattooed her own breast with circles around
Culture
These Kurdish refugee women are proud owners of facial tattoos
Prerna Junior High
Global Girls’ Education: Breaking Down Barriers
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People displaced by the fighting wait to get clean water at a water point in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the United Nations (UN) base in Bentiu, Unity State.
Conflict & Justice
A flood of South Sudanese refugees is overwhelming the UN camp in Bentiu
Fouad Faris, 19, sits at his computer in Shrewsbury, MA, video chatting with his sister, Rama, who is in Turkey. Faris wears a neck brace because he is recovering from a biking accident.
Conflict & Justice
A teen who escaped Syria waits for a future in the US
Environment
A Pacific islands man says climate change makes him a refugee from his home
Aynaz wears a mask
Conflict & Justice
From Iran to Turkey to Canada, a transgender woman seeks refuge
"The Door of Lampedusa, Door of Europe" underscores the situation of refugees who arrive on Lampedusa as the entry point to the rest of Europe.
Conflict & Justice
The refugee tragedy at Lampedusa seems all too familiar to a reporter covering the US-Mexico border
Carmine Pierre calls her 11-year-old son Marc Kelly in Haiti. She hasn't seen him since he was five. (Photo: Amy Bracken)
Conflict & Justice
Why Some Haitians Are Still Waiting on Family-based Visas to Come to the US
>Seni Felić took his seven-year-old son, Venice to Sarajevo, Bosnia for the first time this year. Felić says he wants Venice to learn more about his Bosnian roots. (Photo Courtesy of Seni Felić).
Conflict & Justice
Bosnian Refugees Reflect on Syrian Civil War
Conflict & Justice
One Iraqi Family Adjusts to a New Life in the US
Global Politics
In Germany, Asylum Seekers Demand Same Rights as new Syrian Arrivals
Global Politics
Former British Foreign Minister David Miliband Discusses Plight of Syrian Refugees
Conflict & Justice
Clashing Perspectives From Syria’s Coastal City of Latakia
Global Politics
Turkish Government Wants to Bomb Syria: Turks Opposed
Conflict & Justice
Syrian Conflict Reaches Grim Milestone: Two Million Refugees and Counting
Global Politics
A View from the Syrian/Turkish Border
Conflict & Justice
Boston University Students Raise Money for Clean Water Wells in Darfur
Conflict & Justice
Influx of Syrian Refugees Causing Tension in Lebanon Prompting New Curfews
Conflict & Justice
Syrian Refugees Suddenly Less Welcome in Post-Morsi Egypt
Conflict & Justice
Asylum Seekers in Texas Celebrate US Independence Day
Business, Economics and Jobs
Filipino Domestic Workers Flee War in Syria, Return Home to No Work
Conflict & Justice
How Syria’s Civil War Impacts Neighboring Lebanon
Conflict & Justice
Ahmadi Muslims: Facing Persecution Abroad, But Finding a Home in the US
Conflict & Justice
Syrian Refugees Police Themselves in Zaatari Camp
Conflict & Justice
Laotian Officials Send North Korean Teenage Defectors Home
Arts, Culture & Media
How Syria’s Civil War in Spilling into Iraq
Conflict & Justice
Why It’s Important to Help Syrian Student Refugees Finish Their Degrees
Conflict & Justice
Myanmar’s Young Expats Consider Returning Home
Conflict & Justice
Afghanistan: Inside The Head Of The Giant Buddha
Global Politics
Syria War: Fierce Battle for Key Town
Business, Economics and Jobs
Syrian Refugees Fleeing Violence, Find Home at Restaurant in Cairo
Conflict & Justice
In Turkish Border Town, Chaos and Anger at Syrian Refugees after Twin Bombs Blasts
Arts, Culture & Media
Iranian-American Band The Yellow Dogs Leave Tehran for Brooklyn, and Greater Freedom
Conflict & Justice
Karen Refugees from Myanmar Find a Foothold in North Carolina
Conflict & Justice
How the Boston Bombing Can Re-Traumatize Refugees
Lifestyle & Belief
Syria Behind the Lines
Global Politics
Syrian Armenian Refugees Back President Assad
Conflict & Justice
Syrian Activist in Damascus Says Half His Neighborhood Has Fled Due to Violence
Conflict & Justice
Iraqi Refugees in the US Reflect on War’s Anniversary
Lifestyle & Belief
10 Years After the Invasion, One Iraqi Struggles With His Identity
Global Politics
Syria: The Emotional Toll of Two Years of Terror