by Ballengee, Jennifer R. | Jan 25, 2021 | stories
From the Coalition for Belonging: The sport-based youth development (SBYD) community emphasizes the need to support community building and preservation of connections between coach-mentors and youth during the pandemic. Over one billion young people are currently...
by Miers, Paul D. | Mar 5, 2020 | stories
At the height of recent irregular migration to Europe in 2015, Greece was a transit country and gateway into the European Union (EU). Most asylum seekers and migrants moved onward from the Greek Aegean islands to other parts of Europe. With increases in the flow of...
by Miers, Paul D. | Feb 29, 2020 | front page, stories
Home to four million civilians, northwest Syria is in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe. Intense fighting in Idlib has forced 950,000 people to flee since December 1. More than 50 percent have been women and children. Many of these families had fled the area...
by Ballengee, Jennifer R. | Feb 2, 2020 | blog, front page, stories
Jennifer Ballengee There are currently 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world—the highest number ever on record. Over 20 million of these people are recognized by the United Nations as refugees of war. Millions of these people live in tents—fields of...
by Miers, Paul D. | Mar 7, 2019 | front page, stories
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by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 30, 2019 | front page, stories
Paul Miers Given the U.S. government’s new policy of deporting legal asylum seekers at the Mexican border, we should remember the deportees whose deaths led Woody Guthrie to write “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” in 1948. Their stories have finally been...
