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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.
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On the second anniversary of the E.U.-Turkey deal that curbed refugee boats to Greece, experts from Turkey, Greece and Germany weigh in on the agreement’s impact on refugees and on Europe.
In our latest Deeply Talks we explored why images of refugees and migrants are dominated by “boats and camps.” Award-winning photographer Kalpesh Lathigra and researcher Jelena Jovicic talk to our senior editor, Daniel Howden, about shifting dominant perceptions.
We collected the best stories on refugees from 2017, as selected by refugee and migration experts and the readers and editors of Refugees Deeply.
Jessica Brandt FELLOW, BROOKINGS
Jorge Elorza MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
After the Trump administration quit talks over the U.N. Migration Compact, U.S. mayors joined a petition for cities to play a greater role. Jorge Elorza, mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, and Brookings’ Jessica Brandt examine the significance of cities stepping in.
Evan Easton-Calabria Researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Yamini Mookherjee Research Associate at the Foundation for Rural Recovery and Development, New Delhi
The global focus on building refugees’ self-reliance often fails to understand how refugees define the concept, say researchers Evan Easton-Calabria and Yamini Mookherjee. They explain why some refugees see self-reliance as more complicated than individual and economic.
A Pew Research Center study found that, in eight out of 10 European countries surveyed, the majority believed refugees increase the likelihood of terrorism, with resistance to cultural diversity adding to their fears.
Britain’s vote to leave the E.U. is being widely linked to immigration. As part of our “Brexit Aftermath” series, Alexander Betts, head of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Center, discusses the nuances of the “leave” vote and what lies ahead.
In this fourth part of our World Refugee Day special series on the experiences of men and women from around the world who resettle in America, we speak with Khamisa, who fled violence in southern Sudan – now the world’s newest state, South Sudan.
In this third part of our World Refugee Day special series on the experiences of men and women from around the world who resettle in America, we speak with Ahmed about his journey from Iraq to Syria – from one conflict to another – to reach the safety of Idaho.
Ghinwa Obeid reports from the Bekaa Valley, where a children’s choir is teaching Lebanese students and Syrian refugee children about the power of unity.
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