Refugees

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WARSAW —  Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler nearly wiped Warsaw off the map. Now, a city whose history is written in ash and blood, an age-old crossroads of wartime tragedy, is bursting with Ukrainian refugees. Poland has taken in more people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine than all other countries combined,…

It is understood that the €400 per month payment will be per household irrespective of how many Ukrainian people have been taken into the home. “We hope to have something to bring to government very shortly", said Heather Humphreys. Wed, 27 Apr, 2022 - 13:30 Aoife Moore Political Correspondent The…

The church fellowship hall, often the site of meetings between clients and their case workers, was quiet. There had been less activity at the resettlement office of late; it was Ramadan, the time when Muslims fast between sunrise and sundown. But behind the double doors leading to the warren of…

On a special edition of the Electioncast, Amber Schultz reports on how private drivers are attempting to capitalise off Ukrainian refugees, and how paedophiles are posing as volunteers to enter refugee hubs. (Image: Private Media) Welcome to a special edition of Crikey’s Electioncast. Instead of our normal election content, today…

Les Bird still recalls his first encounter with the Vietnamese boat people. The year was 1977, and the Englishman was out patrolling with Hong Kong’s marine police force. In the distance, he saw a cluster of small, rickety boats chugging toward him. Each was crammed with 20 or 30 people.…

In 1911, a paper titled “The Causes of Earlier European Immigration to the United States”, written by scholar Thomas Walker Page, appeared in The University of Chicago Press’s Journal of Political Economy. “It would be impossible,” states Page, “to enumerate all the causes that induce men to leave old homes…

Russia-Ukraine The program is a piece of a larger initiative to temporarily resettle as many as 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Oxana Nikitas, a refugee from Ukraine, weeps as she holds her daughter Nika, 3, after arriving in Medyka, Poland, on Monday, March 7, 2022. Erin Schaff/The New York Times By Chris…

Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly. For a better experience use Google Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. Vacant social homes will be brought back into use for Ukrainian refugees while a…

A British university student is among volunteers tackling period poverty among Ukrainian refugees. Ella Lambert, 22, is coordinating the distribution of thousands of disposable pads to hospitals in the war-torn nation and to women in refugee camps. The University of Bristol student founded the non-profit Pachamama Project – which provides…