Refugees

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back.

The number of Venezuelan refugees will reach 5.4 million by the end of 2019, according to projections from the United Nations.

Officials say the new plan is built to address backlog issues. But advocates say it will result in fewer people getting asylum.

The international idea of who counts as a refugee is over half a century old. But today the lines between "refugee," "migrant," and "illegal border crosser" have all begun to blur.

We've collected highlights from our coverage of displaced people around the world.

Because the protection is only a temporary status and doesn't offer a path to citizenship, it puts recipients in a legal gray zone.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says everything is available online. How did such a major misunderstanding happen?

The Trump administration has deported Cambodian refugees with criminal records at an unprecedented pace. Liberal governors are using pardons to fight back.

An interview with Peter Mulrean, of the United Nations agency in charge of Palestinian refugees, about what cutting U.S. aid to the program will mean for the world.

New research finds that people avoid connecting emotionally with others out of a fear that it will be too draining.

A Facebook-based refugee charity can be borderless and international in a way that other charities can't.

In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump honored a survivor of both the Holocaust and the Tree of Life shooting. Now, a Jewish refugee advocate says Trump is sending mixed messages.

Europe's 2015–16 refugee crisis shows stricter border control doesn't stop migration. Often, it makes it more dangerous.

Envy Silva, whose family is originally from Guatemala, holds a holiday toy she received from immigration activists across the street from the Miramar Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facility in South Florida.

Anyone who enters the U.S. has a right to claim asylum, but the process isn't easy.

The administration's mass deportations and refusal to take in escapees from disaster may be fueling organized crime in Tijuana and other border towns.

As a result of the Venezuelan crisis, refugees are flooding into cities and towns across the region, an example of a growing global trend.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. will accept only 30,000 refugees in 2019.

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

After an unprecedented outbreak of violence in a border town that has become the main entry point for Venezuelan migrants, the Brazilian government on Monday ruled out closing the border.

The new sanctions are the toughest U.S. action so far in response to Myanmar's ongoing human rights abuses.

Migrants from Afghanistan arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 6th, 2018, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy.

An influx of refugees into Manitoba has raised concern among indigenous Canadians about how limited governmental resources will be distributed between the groups.

The administration hasn't been shy about changing the law, but more hidden changes have taken place too.