refugee

portrait of a woman in the park
Ukraine
Big changes for this young Ukrainian in London
beach scene
Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees found shelter in Spain’s empty hotels. But then, tourists came back.
At a playground in San Francisco, Deisy Ramírez reflects on how she found safety here after fleeing captivity in Guatemala
Women & Gender
For immigrants fleeing gender-based violence, it’s a long road to asylum in the US
A family arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, after fleeing from the Ukraine. 
There’s a double-standard when it comes to media coverage on refugees, analyst says
A migrant looks through a fence as others wait in a line to be registered inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia, outside Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.
Refugees
Cyprus takes a hard line against immigration, trapping migrants in limbo
A father and son sit on a tourist ferry on Lake Van, on their way to an island that hosts the ruins of a 10th century Armenian church
Migration
Turkey’s Lake Van: A dangerous crossroads on the migrant trail
Napier barracks
Migration
‘It’s un-British’: UK government crackdown on asylum courts controversy 
For one of their projects, children were asked to draw two worlds: the reality they live in today and an imaginary world they would like for themselves, and then connect the two with a bridge.
Refugees
A mental health crisis on Lesbos is worsening 
The new migrant facility on Lesbos will be built next to an active landfill, according to a map published by local media in the fall.
Refugees
‘This island is a prison’: Migrants say plan for a refugee camp on Lesbos is too isolating
Social Hackers Academy runs its operations out of a co-working space in downtown Athens.
Technology
This Afghan ‘computer nerd’ learned to code in a Greek program for refugees. He says it was ‘life-changing.’
Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on Lesbos island nearly two weeks ago, more than 500 of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees have been taking shelter at a center run by Team Humanity, a nonprofit humanitarian organization. 
Refugees
Migrants displaced by Lesbos fire say conditions at new camp are inhumane
Several people are show running from a large fire engulfing several structures behind them.
Top of The World
Devastating fire destroys Moria refugee camp; AstraZeneca vaccine trial paused; Thwaites Glacier seafloor survey identifies possible vulnerability
Sandra Morales speaks at Dec. 19 action in front of Member of Parliament Bardish Chagger’s office.
What happens to the American children of asylum-seekers in Canada?
A group of children sit in on carpet inside room surrounded by blue tarp
Education
This school at a refugee camp in Lesbos is a safe haven for children 
A man wears a blue shirt and glasses in an office
Refugees
Greece’s new asylum law ‘poses continuous traps’ for refugees
An aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya, on April 3, 2011.
Refugee camps versus urban refugees: What’s been said — and done
A member of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) talks with Venezuelans as they queue in line to receive a vaccine after showing their passports or identity cards at the Pacaraima border control, Roraima state, Brazil, on Aug. 8, 2018.
US leads global ‘race to the bottom’ in shutting door on refugees and asylum-seekers
A woman in a hijab smiles and poses with three boys ranging in age
Global Nation Education
Campus housing takes on new meaning as US considers more caps on refugee resettlement
an asylum-seeker in Italy sits at the bottom of some stairs in Genoa
Refugees
After budget cuts, asylum-seekers in Italy forced out of cities
A man plays with his daughters in their living room.
Immigration
Settled but unsettled: 4 years on, a Syrian refugee family still torn by US policy
Bidibid refugee camp
Refugees
In Uganda, a refugee camp becomes a city
an illustration of the silhouettes of children on a detention center building
US government uses several clandestine shelters to detain immigrant children
A boy in a blur running.
Arts, Culture & Media
From Syrian refugee to Oscar nominee, ‘Capernaum’ star gets second chance at childhood in Norway
Syrian refugees look at the camera as they stand in front of their homes at Azraq refugee camp
Limits on refugee resettlement lead to agency closures in Los Angeles
Lawrence Alatrash, 25, a non-binary gay Syrian refugee, shows a photo of himself on his mobile phone dressed up in a green tutu for last year's gay pride parade in downtown Athens, Greece.  
Sexuality
Some refugees use Grindr to find love — and money
A man and a child peer out a window of a building. Next to them is a road sign that says "road closed"
Immigration
Refugees asking for asylum in Canada argue the US is no longer safe
Secretary of State Pompeo
Immigration
Ex-diplomats warn Pompeo against eliminating US refugee bureau
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
South Sudanese disembark from a plane from Israel after getting deported back to Juba, June 18, 2012.
Justice
Hundreds of Israeli rabbis say they will personally hide African asylum-seekers in their homes
Retired engineer John Wider, 59, is greeted by a supporter of President Donald Trump as he holds up a sign reading "Welcome Refugees" at the international arrivals terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on June 29, 2017.
Justice
State Department tells refugee agencies to downsize US operations
Alireza, an Iranian refugee living in Turkey
Global Politics
Even though the refugee ban is over, admissions to the US are plummeting
A Meridiana Airlines plane believed to be flying a group of about 50 rejected asylum seekers leaves from Frankfurt Rhein-Main Airport in Germany, Dec. 14, 2016.
Justice
Why German pilots won’t fly Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan
Refugee advocates hold placards as they participate in a protest in Sydney against the treatment of asylum-seekers at Australia-run detention centers
Conflict
Papua New Guinea police move to evict refugees from Australia’s shuttered detention center on Manus
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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Jefferson Krua fled Liberia as a refugee at age 5, and eventually settled in Boston, MA. Recently, he's moved back to Liberia to help with re-building the country's infrastructure.
Culture
A young Liberian refugee, educated in America, chooses to move back ‘home’
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
Syrian filmmaker and satirist Firas Alshater says Europe will embrace its new refugees, but it just might take a while.
Justice
He trusts you. Do you trust this Syrian refugee?
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.
This hand-drawn diagram for the route from Turkey to Germany was recently posted on the Facebook page of one of Abdul-Ahad's Kurdish friends in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Justice
Make an undocumented journey to Europe in 20 basic steps
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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Some of the lucky ones: A group of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants admitted into Indonesia in May 2015. Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are now pushing away boats holding thousands of migrants.
Conflict
Another migrant crisis is brewing in the Bay of Bengal
An African immigrant jumps over a fence into a ferry terminal in the western Greek town of Patras on April 28, 2015.
Conflict
The illusion of ‘controlled migration’ is that you can actually control it
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
Illegal migrants stand in an immigration holding centre located on the outskirts of Misrata Libya, on March 11, 2015. Italy wants Egypt and Tunisia to play a role in rescuing stricken migrant vessels in the Mediterranean.
Conflict
Who’s responsible for the flood of migrants arriving on the shores of Italy?
MOAS rescuing migrants in November, 2014.
Global Politics
An American millionaire works to rescue migrants off the coast of Italy
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
Syrian refugee actors
Conflict
A new radio soap opera gives Syrian refugees a chance to tell their own story