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Welcome to the archives of Refugees Deeply. While we paused regular publication of the site on April 1, 2019, we are happy to serve as an ongoing public resource on refugees and migration. We hope you’ll enjoy the reporting and analysis that was produced by our dedicated community of editors and contributors.
We continue to produce events and special projects while we explore where the on-site journalism goes next. If you’d like to reach us with feedback or ideas for collaboration you can do so at [email protected].
Preethi Nallu is a print and multimedia journalist from Hyderabad, India and the founding editor of Refugees Deeply. Born in Iran, raised in India, she has reported on global displacement in a variety of contexts, from ethnic minority refugees of Myanmar to the protracted Palestinian refugee crisis and more recently, the Mediterranean crossings. She has worked for mainstream media outlets and global think tanks and led multimedia campaigns for the UN and humanitarian agencies. Preethi is trained in Indian classical dance and enjoys adopting Labrador retrievers.
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As Pakistan, Iran and Europe continue to send Afghans back to Afghanistan despite intensifying conflict in several provinces, Refugees Deeply talked to experts in Kabul about what returning refugees face amid soaring displacement inside the country.
Long-term displacement has become a feature of life in Afghanistan. Refugees Deeply’s senior editor Preethi Nallu profiles people in a displacement camp on the outskirts of Kabul, some of whom were born in mud settlements only ever meant to be temporary shelters.
As more than 1 million Afghans return from Pakistan, alongside others coming back from Iran and Europe, Refugees Deeply’s senior editor Preethi Nallu tells the stories of families arriving in a country still embroiled in conflict.
More than 1,000 men and boys were living around Belgrade’s train station until their eviction in May. Now many of them, including hundreds of children traveling alone, are missing or vulnerable to trafficking in their desperation to reach northern Europe.
As part of our “Bags and Belongings” series, 11-year-old Abuzar describes what he brought with him and what he left behind when he started his dangerous voyage, by himself, from Afghanistan to Serbia, battling police and thieves along the way.
As part of our “Bags and Belongings” series, 7-year-old Shahed Orbani from Homs, Syria, describes her memories of home and her hopes for her new life in Lebanon now that she is back in school.
On International Street Children’s Day, Refugees Deeply speaks to Syrian students in Lebanon, some who had previously been out of school and on the streets for years, about the importance of education in their young lives.
As borders have tightened along the western Balkan route to Europe, more lone female refugees are arriving in Serbia having experienced violence and trafficking. Many who want to continue their journeys are using even riskier routes and never appear in official data.
In the first part of our series ‘Europe’s Outsourced Refugees,’ we report from Belgrade on how illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers along the Balkan route are leaving refugees invisible and unprotected.
This week marked the end of the sixth year of the war in Syria. On this grim anniversary we examine the deepening economic, social and other divisions that make it so difficult for refugees to return to Aleppo, the city that has become a bellwether for the country’s future.
To mark the first anniversary of Refugees Deeply, our editors look back and select our best stories and commentaries from the past year.
Amid a renewed offensive on Mosul and U.N.-led Syria talks in Geneva, Middle East journalist and analyst Patrick Cockburn discusses the changing demographics of Syria and Iraq, and the complexities of displaced people returning to “liberated” cities in both countries.
The documentary “Nobel Nok Dah” explores the journeys of three female Karen refugees who fled their homes, experienced forced labor in Thailand and were finally resettled in the U.S. Refugees Deeply spoke to the filmmakers about understanding resettlement through a gender lens.
In the final part of our “Bags and Belongings,” Refugees Deeply senior editor Preethi Nallu explains the genesis of the series, in which Syrians describe what they brought with them and what they left behind. Read their stories in our interactive photo essay.
Thousands of Gambian refugees are returning from Senegal as the country’s new president pledges stability and reform. Exiled Gambian journalist Sanna Camara reports from the border region on the hopes of returning refugees.
Discrimination against foreigners – whether economic migrants or refugees – in Italy’s rental market has been exacerbated by the economic crisis. Refugees Deeply spoke with Syrians living in Bologna who have struggled to find housing despite owning their own businesses.
In the third installment of our “Bags and Belongings” series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Tareq al-Jabr, who fled military service in Syria and is working to publish his first poetry book in Italy.
We collected the best stories on refugees from 2016, as selected by refugee and migration experts and the editors of Refugees Deeply.
As 2016 draws to an end and many of us head home for the holiday season, Syrian refugees are traveling for a very different reason – to find safety and a new home. We asked some of these men, women and children what they packed in their bags and what they left behind.
Amid the anti-migration rhetoric of the incoming Trump administration, Preethi Nallu meets resettled families in the midwestern city of St. Louis, whose communities have helped resuscitate areas of their new hometown.
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