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Vira Ustyanska, a 34-year-old artist, fled her home in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, soon after the war started. She now lives in San Diego, California, with a host family waiting for the war to end.
Ukraine
Finding home in California after fleeing war in Ukraine
Yevdokia, 65, hugs her son Alexander in front of their house, which was heavily damaged by Russia attack, in the retaken area of Izium, Ukraine, on Sept. 14, 2022.
Ukraine
VIDEO: Ukraine’s year of war, displacement and no end in sight
Men remove debris as they search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.
Natural disasters
After deadly quake in Turkey, rescue teams struggle to help amid frigid temps
People and rescue teams try to reach trapped residents inside collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.
Natural disasters
Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
Screenshot from Bahjat official lyric YouTube video "Hometown Smile."
Music
Libyan pop star Bahjat beat the odds. Now he wants to popularize ‘A-pop.’
Joseph Arana Sanchez (center) rehearses on his guitar ahead of a benefit concert for fellow Ukrainians living in Vermont.
Ukraine
This Vermont couple created a home for Ukrainian refugees with a focus on children with disabilities
A film screening at the FiSahara 2022 film festival
Arts, Culture & Media
Film festival at refugee camp near Western Sahara amplifies voices of displaced people
Cars line up to cross from Latvia into Russia
Borders
Desperate Ukrainians crossing into Latvia while Russians are blocked
Some of the younger boys of newly arrived Afghan refugees play in their own game at a St. Louis sports facility. The weekly get-together is a chance to exercise and make new friends.
Refugees
Amid chaos, young Afghan refugees find something familiar in St. Louis — soccer
Migrants cross the Acandi River on their journey north, near Acandi, Colombia, on Sept. 15, 2021. 
Migration
‘I survived a green hell’: More Venezuelans are crossing the dangerous Darién Gap
Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland
Coronavirus Conversations
Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe
Olga Sviridenko (left), who is deaf, signs with her family at a shelter in Romania. 
Refugees
Navigating war without sound: Ukraine’s deaf refugees
An aerial view of Fairbourne village in Gwynedd in Wales, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
Refugees
Climate change may be the leading driver of tomorrow’s refugee crisis
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a media statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 
Refugees
As Canada prioritizes expedited arrivals for Ukrainians, at-risk Afghans remain trapped abroad
Natalya, a 70-year-old retired epidemiologist from Odessa, has lunch at the Asconi Winery near Chisinau, in Moldova, where she is being hosted for free.
Ukraine
Moldova struggles amid fallout from war in Ukraine
A Ukrainian woman waits for relatives fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Feb. 25, 2022. UN officials said that 100,000 people were believed to have left their homes and estimated up to 4
Ukraine
Poland prepares to accept thousands of refugees from Ukraine
Polish security forces surround migrants stuck along with border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.
Borders
Afghan migrants remain stranded at Poland-Belarus border as leaders punt responsibility
Hundreds of people gather near an evacuation control checkpoint during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul.
Afghanistan
As Afghans flee Taliban rule, some find a temporary new home in Uganda
A man sweeps the floor in a church being turned into an apartment
Refugees
Refugees in Maine find it harder to afford housing as remote workers move in
Migrants wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 sit at a pier as Italian police officers stand by.
Migration
Some migrants crossing the Mediterranean say they prefer death to being returned
A hand holds up a cartoon in front of the Capitol dome of the Statue of Liberty hugging a Muslim hijabi girl.
Refugees
Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden’s inaction to restore admissions program
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
Sports
In Canada, Syrian refugee kids find belonging through hockey
n this Aug. 30, 2019, photo, migrants, most who were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program, receive bottles of water given by volunteers in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.
Why Biden’s day one promise to end ‘Remain in Mexico’ program may go unfilled
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
Syrian refugee Anas Modamani takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany, on September 10, 2015.
Global Politics
Five years after migrant crisis, integration in Germany is succeeding, policy analyst says
With Canadian and Haitian flags hoisted, marchers take part in demonstration in support of asylum-seekers working in Quebec's long-term care homes in Montreal, Canada, in June.
Immigration
Canada is granting residency to some asylum-seekers working in pandemic health care
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer announces to a group of asylum-seekers that they will be crossing illegally into Canada as they wait in line to to enter at the US-Canada border in Champlain, New York, August 7, 2017.
Borders
Canada judge rules sending asylum-seekers back to the US violates their rights
A migrant father and child returns to Ciudad Juárez after he had his family's court dates changed by Customs and Border Protection on the Paso del Norte International Bridge after court cancelations amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Ciud
Justice
Why US immigration judges are leaving the bench in record numbers
A helmeted head is blurry in the foreground, behind it, a line of protesters on a balcony
Global Politics
The problem with offers of citizenship to those fleeing Hong Kong
A child looks out from a door as a Uighur woman walks by
Top of The World
New reports on surveillance, ‘demographic genocide’ of Uighurs; Israel hesitates on annexation; Russian election comes to close
Syrian refugee mother holds 6-month-old son as toddler looks at the TV
Refugees
Under Greek law change, thousands of refugees could soon become homeless
A man with a small boy on his back climb from a dinghy
Refugees
As Turkey opens border, conditions for migrants in Europe are ‘unacceptable’
Migrants, mainly from Cuba, block the Paso del Norte border crossing bridge after a US appeals court blocked the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, which sent asylum-seekers back to Mexico to await the outcome of their case, in Ciudad Juarez.
Immigration
Lawyers struggle to remotely represent asylum-seekers in ‘Remain in Mexico’ program
Four young people walk on an island with puddles
Refugees
UN asylum case opens the door to protections for climate refugees
A group of people sit around a table with laptops.
Media
Exiled journalists in Germany find ‘hope’ with a magazine that speaks their language
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
Syrian refugees embrace after landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport.
Immigration
US refugee agencies wither as Trump administration cuts numbers to historic lows
Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.
Refugees
IRC ‘shocked again’ as Trump slashes refugee resettlement numbers
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
portable shower
Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
A woman drags a suitcase in the foreground. In the background, a police officer and three men dragging suitcases.
Migration
As asylum-seekers trek north, Canada examines border loophole
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 grandmother wearing a blue shirt, stands to the left of her daughter wearing a red dress who is standing next to her son.
Refugees
These asylum-seekers won their refugee cases in Greece. Some wish they hadn’t.
US Representative Ilhan Omar addresses a small rally on immigration rights at the temporary installation of a replica of the Statue of Liberty at Union Station in Washington, US May 16, 2019.
Refugees
Rep. Ilhan Omar: US refugee restrictions are ‘inhumane, un-American’
Bidibid refugee camp
Refugees
In Uganda, a refugee camp becomes a city
A large face made out of a razor wire blocks a man holding a suitcase in this illustration.
Orbán's Enemies
In Orbán’s Hungary, refugees are unwelcome — so are those who try to help
Alex Bukasa, a Congolese asylum-seeker and former journalist, poses in front of the White House.
Immigration
Last in, first out: Policy change moves longtime US asylum-seekers to back of the line
A group of men wearing yellow and green jerseys pose for a team photo.
Spain’s Alma de África soccer team is like ‘family’ for immigrant players
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Arts, Culture & Media
Young migrants in Sicily heal from sea-crossing traumas through theater
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
Birgit Bessin poses with a trailer bearing the logo of her party, the AfD
Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD party looks to make inroads in the country’s villages
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
asylum-seekers sing in a church choir
Religion
How a small church in Massachusetts became a destination for LGBTQ asylum-seekers from all over the world
A woman wearing a brown hat sits against a wooden wall with her hands folded under her chin
Conflict & Justice
A former refugee leads families back to an Indonesian island so they can find graves
Man at dinner table, surrounded by people
Culture
Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more
refugee children take an integration class in Germany
Immigration
Support for refugees increases when refugees participate in integration programs
Anti-immigration activists attend a protest in the South Korean capital of Seoul on June 30, 2018. They were protesting against a group of hundreds of Yemeni asylum-seekers who arrived on the South Korean tourist resort of Jeju Island in recent months. Th
A protest against Yemeni refugees reveals how South Korea has been ‘educated to think about foreigners’
Newly arriving Jewish refugee from the Nazi Holocaust wave from the ship "S.S. Awarea" as it pulls into Haifa port on April 6, 1948.
Immigration
Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws