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Abdul Saboor, an award-winning Afghan photographer in France, documents a soccer game at a refugee encampment in Calaís, France.
This Afghan photographer captures life in Calaís migrant encampments
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
A migrant stands outside his tent at Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, March 29, 2021. The European Union's home affairs commissioner is visiting asylum-seeker facilities on the eastern Greek islands of Samos and
Refugees
Activists protest migrant facility plan in Greece: ‘Greek islands will not be turned to prisons’ 
Two children sleep beneath gray blankets on the road near the Moria refugee camp on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Sept. 10, 2020.
Migration
Thousands of refugees sleep in streets after fire destroys Greece’s Moria camp
A refugee woman is pictured at the Souda Refugee Camp in Chios island, Greece, June 10, 2017.
Displacement
Refugees caught in the middle of Greek-Turkish political standoff
A riot police officer hits a migrant with his baton as police tries to disperse a group of migrants outside the port of Mytilene, Greece, March 3, 2020.
Refugees
Opposition to expanding refugee camps in Greece takes new turn
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 
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
portable shower
Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
Three young men sit closely together and look at a cell phone
Refugees
Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia
Syrian refugee Nujeen Mustafa poses after a charity Christmas event
Refugees
War is hell. Try doing it in a wheelchair.
Bidibid refugee camp
Refugees
In Uganda, a refugee camp becomes a city
A boy in a blur running.
Arts, Culture & Media
From Syrian refugee to Oscar nominee, ‘Capernaum’ star gets second chance at childhood in Norway
A tattered boat on the sea under stormy skies.
Environment
Greece’s refugee crisis creates a strain on an already fragile ecosystem
Crowded homes and buildings stacked on a hill.
Immigration
‘We were born refugees’ — Lebanon’s forgotten refugee camp
A line of migrants stand with backpacks and belongings under a green sign marking the Colombian border.
Refugees from Venezuela are fleeing to Latin American cities, not refugee camps
rohingya women lined up, carrying large baskets
When reporting sexual assault, Rohingya women are being lost in translation
a young Rohingya man with intellectural disabilities sits in his makeshift home
Health & Medicine
Help is scarce for Rohingya children with intellectual disabilities
Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Conflict
One doctor’s experience on a ‘medical mission’ to treat Rohingya refugees
Rohingya refugees walk at Jamtoli camp in the morning in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Jan. 22, 2018.
Conflict
I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right
A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Nov. 30, 2017.
Conflict
An overcrowded refugee camp on Lesbos is making children sick
Burundi refugee camp
Conflict
Burundi’s last civil war killed 300,000. A new one is coming
Syrian refugee actors
Conflict
A new radio soap opera gives Syrian refugees a chance to tell their own story
Refugee in Minnesota
Education
How to walk on ice, and other essential winter-survival tips for newcomers to America
African immigrants walk among rows of prefabricated container houses, which have replaced scores of tents, at the open centre for immigrants formerly known as "Tent City" in Hal Far, outside Valletta March 27, 2014. In 2013
Development
Refugee camps are surprising hot spots of innovation
A student takes a test in Hama, Syria. Despite the ongoing war, students in many parts of Syria are taking comprehensive exams.
Development & Education
Whoever hears of students being overjoyed to take final exams?
IKEA creates modular shelters for refugees
Thousands flee Somali drought, overwhelm refugee camps
Global Politics
Number of Syrian Refugees May Grow to Three Million by End of Year
Conditions for Syrian Refugees Continue to Worsen
The Blossoms of Revolution: A Musical for Syria’s Refugee Children in Turkey
Global Politics
Life in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp
Environment
Drought Ravages Parts of East Africa
Arts, Culture & Media
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Conflict & Justice
Geo Answer: Djabal Refugee Camp