Refugees

Nina Francisco, the founder of Nina Malanje, is focused on building a natural skincare line and reducing unemployment for young women living in South Africa. Alyssa Blumstein Over half of the youth in South Africa are unemployed. Take a moment to let that …

Rita Aldaoud was in still in bed around 7 a.m. in early June when a strange number from Iraq rang her phone. Born and raised in Michigan, she ignored it, assuming that it was a foreign robocall. But after receiving two more calls from the same number, she fin…

Refugees in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have voiced fears for relatives on the other side of the disputed Himalayan border after India revoked the Muslim-majority region's special autonomy, raising fears of fresh violence. On Monday, the Indian government …

(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday struck down one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to curtail asylum claims, ruling that the government could not reject migrants who had crossed the border illegally. A different federal judge had already put…

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee took a hard hit at President Donald Trump at Wednesday night’s 2020 Democratic debate, calling him a white nationalist. The governor’s nameless jab came as part of his response on what he plans to do about immigration reform, a que…

We Americans have been confronted by devastating images from our southern border and increasingly polarized views on how to address this untenable situation. At times I wonder if we are retreating from the ideal of America as a country founded by and for br…

Ethnic communities help newly-arrived refugees find work, a new study of asylum seekers in Switzerland shows. The findings show that new refugees were more likely to get a job within their first five years if Swiss officials assigned them to live in an area …

Today, 250 million people around the world live outside their home country. 10% are refugees fleeing their native lands due to war, persecution and other devastating factors beyond their control. The U.S. has welcomed over 3 million refugees since 1980, but t…

What is Myanmar offering the Rohingya to return home?

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities Sitting in an inner-city Istanbul park, Ahmad* was enjoying music and the company of his friends, until someone spotted police walking over. His heart started racing, though calmly he st…