refugees

The coronavirus pandemic temporarily ended the practice of detaining and deporting asylum-seekers in many countries, but harsher border controls could make reaching Europe and the United States harder than ever.

A murder mystery is an indictment of Australia’s draconian immigration policy that has left many legitimate asylum-seekers detained, deported, or dead.

Pressure mounts for Congress to pass safe-harbor legislation to let Hong Kongers escape China’s newest police state.

With support services limited by the coronavirus, refugee children are turning to black markets for survival.

The pandemic proves a mixed blessing: Deportations are suspended but so is health care.

Refugees, migrant laborers, and the global poor are especially susceptible to the pandemic. There’s little time to bridge the gap between haves and have-nots.

With 2,500 asylum-seekers packed in tightly and no coronavirus tests available, doctors and volunteers are doubtful that education will be enough to prevent the spread of the virus.

Refugees are particularly vulnerable to a pandemic—which is why their needs must be taken into account.

The limits of social distancing, the Middle East’s lackluster coronavirus response, and the dark underbelly of whistleblowing.

Around 70 million people are suffering displacement in crowded camps, awaiting the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The EU refused to prepare for a predictable rekindling of the migration crisis—and is now responding with deadly force.

Ankara’s cynical border move gives the European Union the opportunity to redress its past mistakes in Syria.

It’s too late to defeat the Assad regime, but a humanitarian intervention by the EU and NATO could prevent countless deaths and another massive refugee crisis.

EU funds for Libyan militias forced thousands of migrants into dangerous Libyan detention centers. Now, after being evacuated, some of them are stuck as far away as Rwanda—with no idea if they will ever be resettled.

In the name of strengthening its negotiating position after Brexit, the British government is removing internationally recognized protections for unaccompanied children who were once welcomed in the U.K.

Ankara's latest move might slow the Syrian regime's Russian-backed onslaught on Idlib, but the tyrant will remain on the throne so long as the world turns a blind eye.

The world’s second-largest refugee crisis could change North and South America for the better, but host countries can’t shoulder the burden without international help.

Despite pushing policies that are politically naive and disastrous for human rights in North Africa, Italian politicians keep getting promoted in Brussels.

The Trump administration has made it nearly impossible for Afghans who aided U.S. troops to claim asylum in the United States. Instead, thousands who aided Americans on the battlefield are stranded in a country that doesn't want them.