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Must-Read Stories on Refugees From 2017
We collected the best stories on refugees from 2017, as selected by refugee and migration experts and the readers and editors of Refugees Deeply.
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This Age of Migration: Europe’s Rising Militarization
Paul Currion
Consultant
Paul Currion Consultant
As part of our series “This Age of Migration,” Paul Currion argues that increasing militarization in Europe in response to the refugee crisis is akin to an autoimmune response that could attack the very body it is supposed to protect.
- Refugee Voices
- Articles
- General
Refugee Stories Told Through a Student Lens
The global displacement crisis demands more in-depth storytelling, says veteran journalist and teacher Stephan Garnett. He tells Refugees Deeply about a unique student project, the Flight For Life.
- Op-Eds
Can Old Traditions of Hospitality Counter Modern Disposability?
Bruna Kadletz
Works with Displaced Communities
Bruna Kadletz Works with Displaced Communities
In the second part of our Displaced and Disposable series, social researcher Bruna Kadletz encounters astonishing examples of altruism towards some of the thousands of refugees on Lesvos, Greece, showing that ‘the other’ doesn’t have to be met with hostility.
- Innovation & Technology
- Integration
- Op-Eds
An Algorithm to Alleviate the Refugee Crisis
Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym
Lecturer, the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym Lecturer, the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford
Matching theory can drastically improve refugee resettlement, argue Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym, who have adapted algorithms used for school choice.
- Education
- Op-Eds
‘To the Children of Syria, We Are Sorry’
Tom Fletcher
Global Strategy Director, Global Business Coalition for Education
Tom Fletcher Global Strategy Director, Global Business Coalition for Education
In an exclusive open letter addressed to the children of Syria, the former U.K. ambassador to Lebanon, and advisor to NGO Theirworld, Tom Fletcher, points to failures of the international community in keeping its promises to fund the education of Syrian refugees.
- Laws & Policy
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Displaced, Dispossessed and Disposable
Bruna Kadletz
Works with Displaced Communities
Bruna Kadletz Works with Displaced Communities
In this first part of a commentary series titled “Displaced and Disposable,” humanitarian worker Bruna Kadletz argues that current laws and social attitudes disenfranchise refugee populations to the point of dehumanizing them as expendable commodities.
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‘Europeans Fear Terrorism Threats Due to Refugees’
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.
- Laws & Policy
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Gyorgy Kakuk: ‘In the Footsteps of Refugees’
Journalist-turned-politician Gyorgy Kakuk has become an important voice on migration in Hungarian politics. Having followed refugee routes through the Balkans and worked with U.N. Missions in Kosovo and East Timor, he calls for imagination and pragmatism from Europe.
- Refugee Voices
- Articles
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Photo Essay: Breaking Fast in Attica
In the hot Greek summer, members of Athens’ newest refugee communities have been fasting for Ramadan while acclimating to a new cultural landscape. Writer and photographer Iason Athanasiadis visited these communities as part of his Reviving Cities series.
- Economy
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The Walls That Exist in Our Minds
Paul Currion
Consultant
Paul Currion Consultant
As part of his series “This Age of Migration,” humanitarian commentator Paul Currion examines why more states than ever are erecting walls in reaction to migration, and the dangerous emergence of a migration-industrial complex.
- Laws & Policy
- Op-Eds
The GCC ‘Must Rethink its Refugee Strategy’
Tala al-Jabri
Strategy Consultant
Tala al-Jabri Strategy Consultant
With June 20 marking World Refugee Day, Tala al-Jabri, a Syrian-Palestinian strategist in development economics, calls upon the GCC states that have not ratified the 65-year-old U.N. refugee convention to modernize their immigration policies.
- Integration
- Refugee Voices
- Op-Eds
An Intimate Look at the Global Refugee Crisis
Asha Siad and Roda Siad
Documentary Filmmakers
Asha Siad and Roda Siad Documentary Filmmakers
Somali-Canadian filmmakers Asha Siad and Roda Siad, whose short documentary “19 Days” follows several refugee families during their first few weeks in Canada, look at migrants’ experiences in a Calgary resettlement center.
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- General
Communication Breakdown: Refugees Can’t Reach Greek Asylum Service
People like Khalil Mohammed, a Syrian refugee in Greece, have resorted to hunger strikes because they are unable to start their asylum claims due to an under-resourced video interview system that has let down thousands.
- Laws & Policy
- Op-Eds
On the Language of the Refugee “Crisis”
Emily A. Lynch
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
Emily A. Lynch Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University
While mainstream media shapes our perceptions of the current refugee flows as a “crisis,” anthropologist Emily Lynch urges more nuance, thought and imagination when discussing forced migration.