refugees
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.
Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more
Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws
After deportation, a family from Wisconsin will start anew in Cambodia
As US ends immigration programs, a mother and son wonder if they'll ever be together again
Residents fled gun violence at a Pittsburgh public housing project. But refugees are still moving in.
Former residents of Northview Heights in Pittsburgh remember marching bands and days at the recreation center. But that was before shootings and drugs became commonplace for some 1,600 residents of the public housing project.
Migrants desperate to flee Libya's detention camps are being turned back at sea
Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.
The new mayor of Helena, Montana, has made history — and now just wants to get to work
Wilmont Collins came the US as a refugee. Now he will be the first black mayor of his hometown.
'Not gay enough': Dutch authorities challenge asylum-seekers to prove their sexuality
Lawyers and activists working with LGBT refugees in the Netherlands report that immigration authorities are increasingly demanding that people fleeing anti-gay persecution back home prove their sexuality.
World hunger has increased for the first time in 15 years. Blame war and climate change.
Around the globe, about 815 million people — 11 percent of the world’s population — went hungry in 2016, according to the latest data from the United Nations. This was the first increase in more than 15 years.
A refugee writer wins a 'genius grant' for his depictions of the displaced
Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen lives the insider-outsider life of a refugee. His fictional depictions of the effects of displacement has earned him a MacArthur "genius grant."
More than half of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are kids. Many are fleeing Myanmar alone.
About 480,000 Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since late August, fleeing violence in neighboring Myanmar's Rakhine State. Sixty percent of them are children. Many are alone.
Rohingya in Chicago make an emotional plea to the US: 'Help our people'
Chicago is home to more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims who have settled there in the last five years. And from over 8,000 miles away from Myanmar, they want their voices to be heard.
Merkel's party wants to deport migrants to Afghanistan, but this refugee says it's unsafe
A German far-right party won parliamentary seats after campaigning against policies that welcomed refugees. One of those refugees, Ahmad Wali Temory, hopes to preserve the policies that brought Afghans like him to the country.
Ugandans pose as refugees for food because the drought is so bad
Ugandans in the drought-stricken northern part of the country have lost crops and livestock. Now they're resorting to disguising themselves as South Sudanese refugees to gain access to grain, flour and high-energy biscuits distributed at camps.