The experiences of Civil War refugees who came to Worcester County, Mass. during the late 1800s mirror those of war refugees in may wars since, including today’s wars, Clark University professor ...

Fleeing a civil war, Syria's refugees have nearly doubled in the past year. — -- The number of Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland for neighboring countries has passed the 4 million mark, ...

African refugees face a difficult transition to the United States, a Sudanese refugee and a film director said at a screening of "The Lost Boys of Sudan" on Friday. Joseph Deng, a U.S. citizen who ...

ADRE, Chad (AP) — Fatima Omas Abdullah wakes up every morning with aches and pains from sleeping on bare ground for almost two years. She did not expect Sudan's civil war to displace her for so long ...

That is the powerful message of “Uprooted”, a new short film released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, ahead of World Refugee Day on 20 June. Featuring a cast and crew of more than 50 refugees ...

Over 1.2 million refugees escaping the devastating war in Sudan have crossed over to neighbouring South Sudan according to the UN’s High Commission for Refugees. 823,557 of them are returning to a ...

BASRAH, Iraq, June 18 (UNHCR) - Fifty-five year-old Zeinab and her daughters Maha, Suad and Zahra* sit on the floor of the small run-down house they rent in central Basrah. The women smile but their ...

A few years ago, Van Ta Park’s brother was killed on a morning jog by a driver who ran a red light. When the time came, her father could not bring himself to board the boat taking the family to ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - A Holy Cross College psychology professor recently traveled to Poland to help young Ukrainian refugees deal with the psychological trauma of being forced from their home by ...

Associate Professor Phi Vân Nguyen is a historian in the Department of Social Science and Humanities at the Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Canada. Her research examines war, migration, and ...

Signing up for aid, 19-year-old Yahya recounted his long ordeal. After being trapped by the fighting for more than two years in his native city of Homs, he was evacuated earlier this year and traveled ...

Over 2 million have fled Ukraine, while some stayed to fight -- or just survive. When one Ukrainian woman woke up and answered a frantic call from her mother on the morning of Feb. 24 -- before the ...