refugees

Turkey’s plans in Syria are part of a long and dark history of population transfer stretching back to the Ottoman era.

Here’s what doing so would mean for immigration levels.

Trump’s aid cuts posed an existential threat to the U.N. agency charged with caring for millions of Palestinians. Now, the agency is grappling with its own management crisis.

Washington should do more to address the worsening humanitarian situation in the region.

In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia.

The European Union is funding the Libyan coast guard to keep migrants out of Europe and detain them in a failed state—and that leaves them at the mercy of militias and human traffickers.

As the cases of Israel and Jordan show, an influx of migrants can prompt lasting economic reform.

Instead, Washington should focus on helping end conflicts around the world.

Bashar al-Assad is on the verge of victory after massacring his population with Russian help. But the EU’s fear of yet another refugee influx could spur action to stop the carnage.

Voters across the political spectrum have become hostile toward the millions of people who fled Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opponents are now responding with tough talk on repatriation.

The Turkish government provides millions of Syrians with health care and education. A multilateral political solution is needed and demonizing Ankara won’t help.

Beirut is ready to send refugees home, but there isn’t much for them to go back to.

Refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge as children are being deported from the United States in record numbers—and are adapting as adults to life in a country most have never known.

Ankara once welcomed millions of Syrians as “guests.” Now, as anti-refugee sentiment rises, they are being sent back across the border, where they face danger and death.

Under U.S. domestic and international law, public servants locking up immigrants at the border could be prosecuted.

On the podcast: Where Trump’s effort to block asylum-seekers fits in the history of U.S. immigration policy.

The U.N. is wrong to support national ID cards that could backfire on the persecuted minority.

The country has hosted the most refugees per capita in the world—and it’s now out of patience.

Forcing migrants to claim asylum in Guatemala will further destabilize that country and harm migrants.

The Australian government has spent the past two decades making it harder to claim asylum and detaining legitimate refugees far from its borders. Now Trump is trying to import Canberra’s draconian approach.