How Xenophobia Could Ruin the Best Thing About the EU How Xenophobia Could Ruin the Best Thing About the EU
If the European Union can’t agree on a common resettlement policy for refugees, one of its signal achievements—open borders among member nations—could disappear.
Sep 14, 2015 / Daniel Trilling
Tell the United States to Accept More Refugees and Asylum-Seekers From Syria Tell the United States to Accept More Refugees and Asylum-Seekers From Syria
Join The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and MoveOn in calling on the United States to take in more Syrian refugees.
Sep 10, 2015 / no-paywall / NationAction
Yemen, the World’s Next Great Refugee Crisis Yemen, the World’s Next Great Refugee Crisis
As the civil war heats up amid intervention by the Gulf monarchies, thousands are fleeing every day.
Sep 9, 2015 / Juan Cole
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America Europe’s Refugee Crisis Was Made in America
Washington helped create the conditions with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sep 9, 2015 / Editorial / The Editors
This Is What Greece’s Refugee Crisis Really Looks Like This Is What Greece’s Refugee Crisis Really Looks Like
“Thanks to God I have made it here. I am free, I am alive!”
Sep 1, 2015 / Jesse Rosenfeld
The Gaza Strip’s Last Safety Net Is in Danger The Gaza Strip’s Last Safety Net Is in Danger
The UN’s refugee agency is one of the few forces standing between the people of Gaza and humanitarian catastrophe.
Aug 6, 2015 / Sara Roy
How Art Therapy Is Being Used to Help Syrian Children in Lebanon How Art Therapy Is Being Used to Help Syrian Children in Lebanon
Ninety-five thousand Syrian children in Lebanon have been traumatized by the conflict—can painting help them?
Aug 5, 2015 / John Knefel
The Civil War in Syria Is Invisible—but This Anonymous Film Collective Is Changing That The Civil War in Syria Is Invisible—but This Anonymous Film Collective Is Changing That
Abounaddara has been chronicling the hidden moments of the war, week after week.
Jun 29, 2015 / Moustafa Bayoumi
How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children How the ‘Biden Plan’ Will Worsen the Plight of Central American Refugee Children
The vice president is promoting a 2016 budget that deepens the drug-war and free-trade agendas that contributed to the crisis.
Apr 7, 2015 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Laura Carlsen and Foreign Policy In Focus
How the War With ISIS Has Exposed Kurdistan’s Internal Divisions How the War With ISIS Has Exposed Kurdistan’s Internal Divisions
The West’s favorite Iraq “success story,” the Kurdish region is actually plagued with corruption and nepotism.
Apr 6, 2015 / Jenna Krajeski