Since the year 2000, June 20 has been set aside as a day to raise awareness about the plight of refugees around the world. And if recent news and social media outrage haven’t been enough of an ...

June 20th is World Refugee Day, a day to commemorate the "strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees" worldwide and show support for people who have been displaced. In observance of ...

Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sympathizer,” goes silent for a moment. It sounds, briefly, as if there’s a faulty connection over a phone call from Los Angeles, where he ...

What led you to Sullivan for your new book, Refugee High: Coming of Age in America? Most refugees in Chicago are resettled in Rogers Park, and for many of them, Sullivan is their neighborhood school.

Refugee advocates often tell stories using a representative figure to evoke sympathy and motivate charity. Others argue for the restriction of refugee resettlement, using the rule of law as a reason ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 29 January 2002 UNHCR ...

While researching and writing “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press, 2024), Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s archival fieldwork took him to 10 ...

Chapter 1: We were scattered, an unsettling feeling in such an uncertain time. For weeks I had been dreaming of home — our big yellow-brick house with a grass-green roof, filled with cousins and ...

TUNIS, August 11 (UNHCR) - A new reference work has arrived on bookshelves across the Arab world designed to help researchers, students and human rights lawyers better understand the needs of refugees ...

TUNIS, August 11 (UNHCR) – A new reference work has arrived on bookshelves across the Arab world designed to help researchers, students and human rights lawyers better understand the needs of refugees ...