refugee crisis

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
Central American migrants stand in line before entering a temporary shelter, after illegally crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S., in Deming, New Mexico, on May 16, 2019.
Immigration
Supreme Court’s asylum decision is a ‘recipe for chaos,’ experts say
Bidibid refugee camp
Refugees
In Uganda, a refugee camp becomes a city
Syrian refugee, Malik Alarmash, left, speaks with Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, right, at the Refuge Coffee Shop in Clarkston, Georgia. Stephanie Steinbrecher with the Sierra Club, center, listens.
Climate Change
Legally, ‘climate refugees’ don’t exist. But in Georgia, they say they’re already here.
Screenshots of Facebook posts
Why I can’t quit Facebook: I want to click ‘love’ when I see refugees’ big milestones
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees shout slogans as they protest against their repatriation
Conflict & Justice
Bangladesh pauses Rohingya repatriation plans amid refugee protests
A tattered boat on the sea under stormy skies.
Environment
Greece’s refugee crisis creates a strain on an already fragile ecosystem
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Arts, Culture & Media
Young migrants in Sicily heal from sea-crossing traumas through theater
refugee
Under Trump, US has all but halted admissions for the world’s most persecuted people
Yusra, played by Rhianna Merralls, struggles to fall asleep in the play, "Wherever I Lay My Head," performed in London City Hall.
Chronic insomnia plagues young migrants long after they reach their destination
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
Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine State, Myanmar, Sept. 27, 2017.
Conflict
Rohingya insurgents say they have no option but to fight Myanmar
Two migrants play checkers with bottle caps in an abandoned warehouse where they live on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Conflict
Trapped by border closings, these young migrants are hiding out in an abandoned warehouse
UK musician Nick Mulvey
Music
Nick Mulvey’s latest album is a ‘response to these crazy times’ we’re living in
A man who identifies himself as a migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 10, 2015.
Conflict
For many Germans, this election is about refugees
Supporters of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party rally in Athens, Greece, Jan. 28, 2017.
Conflict
How Lesbos residents drove the far-right Golden Dawn party off the island
Searching
Conflict
DNA might help him identify his family. But he can’t find a way to give a sample.
Hana, as a young girl in Prague, is surrounded by her mother, grandmother and great grandmother
Culture
Why telling my grandmother’s story helped me better understand today’s refugees
A Syrian refugee covers her face to hide her identity as she poses for a photograph at an asylum camp outside Stockholm, June 8, 2014.
Conflict
Refugees in Sweden adjust to anti-migrant sentiment and tougher asylum laws
Myrta Kalampoka says investing in her olive trees saved her family from the Greek economic crisis. Now she hopes their olive oil can rescue them from an ongoing drop in tourism to Lesbos.
Economics
Hear how investing in olive trees saved one Lesbos family from economic crisis
An Eritrean refugee girl plays with clay in front of a shelter in Mai-Aini refugee camp near in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, Feb. 10, 2016.
Conflict
As Western nations shut out migrants, Ethiopia’s doors are open — even to its enemy
Rohingya refugee children attend a makeshift school at Balukhali Makeshift Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Global Politics
Trump says the world is a nasty place. This humanitarian disagrees.
A young girl in Ganyiel’s health clinic watches her 3-year-old sister who is sick with cholera. Her mother brought her over from Tayar island to seek treatment in the clinic.
Conflict
Cholera stalks ‘refugee islands’ in swamplands of South Sudan
Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos
Conflict
Refugees suffer PTSD and attempt suicide in Greece
After Noor (right) fled Syria with her family, her husband began to be abusive. She now receives counseling and health services at this women's center in Jordan.
Conflict
A women’s health center for Syrian refugees is helping Jordanian women, too
A young Syrian refugee looks up as her father holds her and a Canadian flag at the as they arrive at Pearson Toronto International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Dec. 18, 2015.
Development
Way more migrants are now sneaking across the US-Canada border
Tareq Hadhad
Economics
A Syrian family finds sweet success in Canada
Hamzeh Mourad and his daughter, Houda. The Syrian family arrived in Canada last December with nothing but their clothes and $800.
Conflict
Syrian refugees in Canada face their first month without state money
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Media
Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe
An Egyptian mother reacts beside the body of her son who was on a boat carrying migrants which capsized off Egypt's coast, in Al-Beheira, Egypt, September 22, 2016.
Conflict
At least 162 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant shipwreck
Obaidullah Naseri and Mortaza Behboudi at the Migrants' ball in Paris. Behboudi, right, is an Afghan journalist who sought aslyum in France.
Music
Paris hosts a ‘Migrant Ball,’ but it wasn’t just for migrants
Deportation stamps used by the German federal police "Bundespolizei" to stamp ID documents of rejected asylum seekers, in Rosenheim, southern Germany.
Global Politics
In Germany, mass deportation is a touchy subject
Bill Moore and Judith Fearing are members of Nelson Friends of Refugees. They've raised money and secured an apartment for a family of Syrian refugees. All they need now are the refugees. But they're still waiting.
Conflict
Some Canadians really want to sponsor Syrian refugees. Turns out it’s harder than they thought.
Ghaith is a Syrian refugee living in Beirut. He can't work there but now he can earn a living as an online Arabic teacher.
Education
This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.
A group of activists march down a street with a large banner that reads, STAND TOGETHER MONTANA.
Global Politics
Small-town America is arguing over whether to welcome Syria’s refugees or fear them
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
Ahmed Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, Syria, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on the island of Jeju.
Conflict
A Syrian man takes refuge in a Korean honeymoon resort island
Hiba Bekai's office is her home, where she sews and does other needle work that she sells to Syrians and Lebanese.
Conflict
This Syrian woman never had a paying job at home. Now she’s started a business in Lebanon.
Syrian Refugees
Understanding Europe’s Refugee Crisis: An International Town Hall
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Tunisian fishermen try on life jackets offered by MSF at the end of the training. The fishermen say in general they lack the equipment to cope with boatloads of migrants and refugees in distress.
Global Politics
Tunisian fishermen are trained to be ‘safety nets’ for migrants making a deadly sea crossing
Migrants and refugees are seen aboard a Turkish fishing boat as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from theTurkish coast to Lesbos.
Global Politics
World leaders will be judged by how they handle the migrant crisis
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Conflict
Oxfam America wants more refugees. But some warn of radical jihadist infiltration.
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sleep on the ground at the Bajed Kadal refugee camp in southwest Dohuk province on August 23, 2014.
Conflict
A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation
A panel from Andy Warner's "The Displaced."
Conflict & Justice
A Bay Area journalist draws cartoons to wake the world to the Syrian crisis