Refugees – Strangers Guide

Global

Refugee Experiences in the time of COVID

by Stranger’s Guide

Each June 20th, the United Nations marks World Refugee Day, an annual event designed to communicate...

Global

“no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. you only run for...”

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Canada

Canada has taken in over 59,000 Syrian refugees since 2015 and though many of them still struggle to find work and settle in, their...

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Mexico City

Neither from Here Nor There

The stories of five US deportees now living in Mexico City.

by Sheerly Avni
Photography by Nadia Baram

Some come by cars packed with all their belongings, driving southward across the US/Mexico border after...

Mexico City

Inside the Big Pipe

Border surveillance isn't just on the US-Mexico border.

by Roger D. Hodge

We used to think of the US-Mexico border as a line separating two countries—a place, a...

United States

“In Los Angeles I grew up watching The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and...”

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Europe

“The camp was in some ways like a trading post in an old-time gold rush, and...”

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Germany

“BAMF decides which of the millions of migrants who have washed into Germany will be permitted...”

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Middle East

In the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, Syrian refugees can use an iris scanner to pay for groceries. The program, called Building Blocks, helps...

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Asia

Despite the loud debates in Western Europe and the US around the plight of refugees, a whopping 84 percent of refugees are hosted in...

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