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Coming Home to a Foreign Land: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees
Coming Home to a Foreign Land: The Repatriation of Afghan Refugees
Afghans returning home from Pakistan find few prospects for education and jobs
Samira Sadeque
May 20, 2017
Buffalo: A Point of Entry from the US to Canada
Buffalo: A Point of Entry from the US to Canada
Asylum seekers have known for years that Buffalo can be a friendly crossing point to refugee claims in Canada.
Sana Ali
May 7, 2017
Afghans Going Home: A Welcome Resolution, or “Largest Unlawful Mass Forced Return of Refugees in…
Afghans Going Home: A Welcome Resolution, or “Largest Unlawful Mass Forced Return of Refugees in…
The Torkhum border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, used as an entry and exit point for most refugees, closed during the winter…
Amel Ghani
May 7, 2017
Across American Towns, Tension Brews Against Refugees
Across American Towns, Tension Brews Against Refugees
Since the early 1980s, the agency now known as the Collegeof Southern Idaho (CSI) Refugee Center has been welcoming refugees to Twin Falls…
Samira Sadeque
May 2, 2017
One Refugee Census, Many Refugee Hopes
One Refugee Census, Many Refugee Hopes
In January, undocumented Afghans who live in Iran were happily surprised when the Iranian Interior Ministry invited them to participate in…
Somayeh Malekian
May 1, 2017
Feast or Protest? Dining Out in New York on Cuisines from the Trump “Banned” List.
Feast or Protest? Dining Out in New York on Cuisines from the Trump “Banned” List.
On an early March evening in midtown Manhattan, 20 people crowded around tables jammed with plates of exotic dishes at the Ravagh Persian…
Ruinan Zhang
Apr 3, 2017
Home for a Century: A View into New York’s Syrian Stronghold
Home for a Century: A View into New York’s Syrian Stronghold
President Trump’s two executive orders on travel have signaled his administration’s clear wariness of resettling more Syrian refugees in…
Danish Mehboob
Apr 1, 2017
Central Americans are Being Shorthanded by U.S. Refugee Politics
Central Americans are Being Shorthanded by U.S. Refugee Politics
Suny Rodriguez’s parents were killed in her homeland Honduras in 2004, in circumstances that looked suspiciously like police retaliation…
Alena Maschke
Mar 31, 2017
Technology and Social Media Helped Them on The Road.
Technology and Social Media Helped Them on The Road.
When Raflaa Alshareefi and her husband arrived in America in 2009, the U.S. refugee program resettled them in Denver. They were the only…
Sana Ali
Mar 30, 2017
Online Ad Targeting — A New Front Line in the Refugee Crisis
Online Ad Targeting — A New Front Line in the Refugee Crisis
When he’s missing home, 17-year-old refugee Farid Rasuli will often go on YouTube and search for folk music in Dari, the Persian dialect of…
Kevin Sun
Mar 29, 2017
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