As the Russian invasion rages on in Ukraine, countries from around the world have come together to support refugees fleeing the country. Poland, Moldova, and other bordering countries are allowing refugees in by the millions. The global community has...
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As the Russian invasion rages on in Ukraine, countries from around the world have come together to support refugees fleeing the country. Poland, Moldova, and other bordering countries are allowing refugees in by the millions. The global community has...
Lenni Benson is the Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. She founded the Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal support to refugees and immigrants facing deportation. Benson has w...
Lenni Benson is the Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law at New York Law School. She founded the Safe Passage Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal support to refugees and immigrants facing deportation. Benson has w...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
Laden with bundles of belongings, a mass of Venezuelan migrants cautiously pick their way across a frothing river. Grandmothers, pregnant women, toddlers: They clutch at each other’s hands for stability, their “bridge” just a collection of sand...
Laden with bundles of belongings, a mass of Venezuelan migrants cautiously pick their way across a frothing river. Grandmothers, pregnant women, toddlers: They clutch at each other’s hands for stability, their “bridge” just a collection of sand...
Back in December, The Atlantic broke the story that the Trump administration was in talks with their Vietnamese counterparts to renegotiate a 2008 agreement to expand the number of Vietnamese American lawful permanent residents eligible for deportati...
Back in December, The Atlantic broke the story that the Trump administration was in talks with their Vietnamese counterparts to renegotiate a 2008 agreement to expand the number of Vietnamese American lawful permanent residents eligible for deportati...
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea launched a historic visit when he landed in Pyongyang, North Korea on September 18, 2018 to broker a deal with his northern counterpart, Chairman Kim Jong-un. Koreans both north and south of the Demilitarized Zone...
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea launched a historic visit when he landed in Pyongyang, North Korea on September 18, 2018 to broker a deal with his northern counterpart, Chairman Kim Jong-un. Koreans both north and south of the Demilitarized Zone...
My grandfather Fayez Hamdan Fayad will never forget the year 1948. A Palestinian refugee, he will always remember the time he was forced to flee his home. “I remember the day we [the Palestinians] were forced out of our homeland by the Zionist regi...
My grandfather Fayez Hamdan Fayad will never forget the year 1948. A Palestinian refugee, he will always remember the time he was forced to flee his home. “I remember the day we [the Palestinians] were forced out of our homeland by the Zionist regi...
In the past few years, issues surrounding immigration, refugees, and displaced persons have proven to be ones transcending national jurisdiction. Since the eruption of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, 13.5 million people have been in desperate need of h...
In the past few years, issues surrounding immigration, refugees, and displaced persons have proven to be ones transcending national jurisdiction. Since the eruption of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, 13.5 million people have been in desperate need of h...
“Before the drought, I would have to dig 60 or 70 meters to find water. Then I had to dig 100 to 200 meters,” said former Syrian well-digger Kemal Ali. “Then, when the drought hit very strongly, I had to dig 500 meters. The deepest I ever had t...
“Before the drought, I would have to dig 60 or 70 meters to find water. Then I had to dig 100 to 200 meters,” said former Syrian well-digger Kemal Ali. “Then, when the drought hit very strongly, I had to dig 500 meters. The deepest I ever had t...
The number of international migrants has increased by 41 percent between 2000 and 2014, and it reached 244 million in 2015, with 20 million of those migrants being refugees. To prevent this humanitarian crisis from turning into a humanitarian nightma...
The number of international migrants has increased by 41 percent between 2000 and 2014, and it reached 244 million in 2015, with 20 million of those migrants being refugees. To prevent this humanitarian crisis from turning into a humanitarian nightma...
The post of Secretary General of the UN, perhaps the most symbolically important leadership position in the international community, is changing hands for the first time in over a decade. Under the leadership of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the UN ...
The post of Secretary General of the UN, perhaps the most symbolically important leadership position in the international community, is changing hands for the first time in over a decade. Under the leadership of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the UN ...
In 2015, the UN High Commission on Refugees interviewed over 400 children who had been taken into custody by the US federal government for illegally crossing the border while unaccompanied by adults. Their stories were heart-wrenching. Maritza, a 15-...
In 2015, the UN High Commission on Refugees interviewed over 400 children who had been taken into custody by the US federal government for illegally crossing the border while unaccompanied by adults. Their stories were heart-wrenching. Maritza, a 15-...