The federal Refugee Resettlement Program was created in 1980 and since then, the United States has welcomed more than three million refugees from all over the world. In recent years, however, intake ...
More than 70 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence or persecution, the United Nations has said, as the global migrant crisis pushed the number of refugees and displaced ...
Despite record levels of worldwide displacement and continuing refugee influxes, some 10.5 million refugees received health care through public health programs and through UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency ...
Canada overtook the United States as the world’s leading host of formally resettled refugees in 2018, according to statistics compiled by the United Nations. The findings were released as part of the ...
The Trump administration slashed the number of Syrian refugees allowed into the country from 12,587 in fiscal year 2016 to a meager 62 in 2018. Mustafa Khatieb, who fled Syria to join his family in ...
It's well known that President Trump wants a wall on the southern U.S. border. He insists it's urgent to curb illegal immigration. But more than any wall, new barriers to legal immigration are likely ...
It's a familiar scene: a family gathering on a Sunday afternoon, the kids off playing somewhere in the house. But in the kitchen, conversations in Swahili fill the room. Cecil Furaha, 30, uses a ...
According to a report released by the Laborers’ Health and Occupational Safety Assembly on the occasion of International Migrants Day, at least 108 migrant-refugee workers have lost their lives in ...
Mandy Manning, who teaches English and math to newly arrived refugee and immigrant students Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, Wash., was named the 2018 National Teacher of the Year. Manning, who ...