by Miers, Paul D. | Feb 1, 2019 | uncategorized
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by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 29, 2019 | uncategorized
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines,...
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 28, 2019 | uncategorized
Both the United States and Mexico are deporting individuals with significant protection needs back to Honduras and El Salvador – the countries from which they fled. In this report, Refugees International (RI) finds that the protection process at every stage – from...
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 28, 2019 | uncategorized
Thousands of people risk their lives daily by crossing borders in search of a better life. During 2015, over one million of these people arrived in Europe. Images of refugees in distress became headline news in what was considered to be the worst humanitarian crisis...
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 28, 2019 | uncategorized
Today, more than 60 percent of all refugees and 80 percent of all internally displaced persons are living in urban areas. While cities are periodically overwhelmed by sudden mass influxes of forced migrants, they are remarkably effective at absorbing populations on...