When people find themselves displaced from their homes, finding or creating beauty can be just as vital as food, water and shelter − and serves as a form of resistance and resilience.
Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, home to one million Rohingya refugees, is prone to flooding.
Sk Hasan Ali/Shutterstock
Tanzania’s refugee policy in the 1990s is a good example of how geopolitics affects ordinary refugees.
Learners in a school for about 5,000 children in Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in Ethiopia’s Gambela region in 2019.
Peter Kneffel/picture alliance via Getty Images
Homes for Ukraine has been in operation for six months. Refugees in the UK and the people hosting them, however, will likely need support for years to come.
Though young, the trauma experienced by children in Syrian detention camps could have lifelong effects. A coordinated approach is needed to support them into new lives here.
The al-Roj camp in northeast Syria.
Save the Children/AAP
It has taken Australia far too long to return its citizens from hellish refugee camps in Syria – and treating people well will create far less risk to the country than leaving them there.
A cafe in Cairo, Egypt, that is predominantly visited by Sudanese migrants, in August 2017.
Oliver Weiken/picture alliance via Getty Images
Researchers asked aid workers how to best prepare for the climate emergency in places where its effects are most severe.
Palestinian university student Mira Krayem, 24, poses for a picture in an alley of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, on May 21, 2021.
Anwar Amro/AFP
Marie Kortam, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH)
Paulo Freire’s concept of “conscientization”, or critical consciousness, helps us better understand the lives of young Palestinians, particularly those living in Lebanese refugee camps.
A Syrian refugee mother and her son attend an announcement in 2015 about a building being constructed to house and aid refugees, which opened a year later in Vancouver.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Favourable public opinion helps create political will to increase resettlement and alleviate the global refugee crisis. A new tool could help build supportive social networks for refugees.
Tents in a Rohingya refugee camp cluster on a muddy hillside in Bangladesh.
Saleh Ahmed
International law bars nations from causing environmental harms in other states. Should that include sending thousands of refugees over the border in search of food, water and shelter?
A Somali refugee shops for fresh produce at a market in the Hagadera camp within the sprawling Dadaab complex.
Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
By securitising refugees, in this case accusing them of instigating terror, the Kenyan government is compromising their social, economic and political rights as set out in international law.
Kimberly Gwen Polman, a Canadian national, reads a letter at camp Roj in Syria. Polman came to the Islamic State’s caliphate to join her new husband, a man she knew only from online.
(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Samuel Judah Seomeng, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington e Caroline Bennett, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
As the country’s first ever African MP, and only the second refugee to win a seat, Ibrahim Omer is ideally placed to tackle the big problems facing immigrant communities.