The number of people applying for refugee or asylum status in Mexico has nearly doubled since 2019, reaching an all-time high of 131,448 claims in 2021 — 39 percent of which came from Haitians, according to government data released last month.
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My dreams of being an artist were an uncomfortable fit for my refugee family’s valuesAfter surviving a war, they built a quiet, stable life by working hard and keeping their heads down.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than a year since the Afghanistan pullout crisis and less than a year since the war in Ukraine began, two Austin high school students have fundraised to help refugee families integrate in Central Texas.
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BIG ADDS A CURVED CORTEN STEEL CORNER TO NEW REFUGEE MUSEUM OF DENMARKimage © Rasmus HjortshøjBjarke Ingels Group / BIG has designed a museum dedicated to refugees in Oksbøl, at the site of Denmark‘s largest refugee camp from World War II.
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The first official record holder was Minh Thai, a Vietnamese refugee who won the inaugural World Rubik’s Cube Championship in 1982 with a time of 22.
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Christina Holmes for The New York TimesIn this special Thanksgiving Student Opinion question from 2019, we selected four articles from around The Times, each of which takes on a different perspective about Thanksgiving — one on connecting with others, another on eating, a third on celebrating the holiday as a refugee and a fourth on challenging the myths around the first Thanksgiving.
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His mania made it easier for me to manage the archives, but his personality also made me inherit his excesses: since childhood spent as a refugee in Switzerland, he hated groups.
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MAKE Projects is an urban farm and restaurant that provides employment and experience for low-income women and youth from refugee and immigrant communities.
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For Jacqueline Uwera, a Rwandan refugee with several disabilities and founder of the Défilé Solidaire project, it's a dream come true.
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He previously criticized German chancellor Angela Merkel for her handling of the refugee crisis over 2015-16.
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Among its responsibilities, the SDF oversees the al-Hol refugee camp, where tens of thousands of people — many of them the families of Islamic State militants — live in squalid conditions, unable to return to their home countries.
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Andrea Romeo, CEO at Italy’s I Wonder Pictures, broke the ice with a presentation on their release of Flee [+see also: film reviewtrailerinterview: Jonas Poher Rasmussenfilm profile], the animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen about an Afghan refugee struggling to build a new life in Europe.
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As the final refugee disembarked on that fabled Earth-like planet, my feelings were mixed: satisfaction for achieving closure in a compelling story and securing a future for humanity, but also relief in retiring a finicky, often counterintuitive management sim.
Source: PC Gamer
The plan could address growing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey and bolster Erdogan’s support ahead of next year’s elections, while diluting historically Kurdish-majority areas by resettling non-Kurdish Syrian refugees there.
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Labour would fast-track asylum cases from ‘safe’ countries to clear backlogRead moreAnd in the House of Lords Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has just opened a debate on asylum and refugee policy.
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'Being the daughter of a refugee father from Palestine, and an immigrant mother from Holland, there's a sort of work ethic that runs in our blood,' she said in a pre-recorded video.
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ShowtimeLimbo Writer-director Ben Sharrock’s critically acclaimed 2020 comedy-drama takes an offbeat look at the refugee experience by centering on four recently arrived asylum seekers who currently are staying on a remote (and fictional) island in Scotland, where they are taking cultural awareness classes while waiting for their refugee petitions to be processed.
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Omar became the first Somali and refugee elected to the U.
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“After the exhibit is concluded, these quilts are distributed to local refugee communities,” Rennau said.
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Google recently conducted an experiment in Europe where it sought to counter anti-refugee narratives online in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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A Gaza Weekend is screening at Red Sea International Film Festival
Like many films about Palestine, “A Gaza Weekend” follows the trajectory of a refugee couple – though this time, they’re from Israel.
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Google recently conducted an experiment in Europe where it sought to counter anti-refugee narratives online in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Based on Mo Amer’s life as a Palestinian refugee living in the American South, this comic look at the American immigrant experience from Amer and Ramy’s Ramy Youssef also garnered a perfect RT score.
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This is a quasi-romance and coming-of-age story set inside a refugee crisis in a world awash in bigotry.
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The Nobel Academy specifically commended him ‘’for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.
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Atrocities were so bad that South Sudan granted refugee status to Anuaks streaming in from neighboring Ethiopia.
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León left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City.
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"The Plymouth [Congregational] Church's social justice committee and 18 other co-sponsors are holding a ping pong party to welcome our Afghan refugee families and children.
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read more The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) recently said Mexico should consider new aid programs amid a surge in the arrival of foreigners, many of them Venezuelans, for whom Mexico now requires a visa.
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An economic development bill Baker signed into law last month included a $20 million allocation to address immigrant and refugee needs.
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On the southern border, people displaced by conflict in Syria, refugee camps in Jordan and Iraq.
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This year, the group of nominees reflects an ongoing shift away from the homogenous model ideal of the past: Akech is a refugee from South Sudan, Elsesser is a plus-size model, and Chasinghorse is an Indigenous model and activist.
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The potential for new outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in areas such as conflict zones and among refugee populations is high.
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Revealing its supernatural evils through a harrowing human story, it follows Bol and Rial, a refugee couple from Sudan, who struggle to adapt to their new life in an English town.
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Frost, who is of Lebanese, Puerto Rican and Haitian descent and was adopted at birth in 1997, grew up in Orlando with a mother who was a Cuban refugee and schoolteacher and a father who was a Kansas-born musician.
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Composer and conductor Tania Leon, 79, left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City.
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In Germany — home to more than 1 million Ukrainians — attempted arson attacks and threatening graffiti on refugee accommodations and schools in recent months suggest the messaging is already reaching a radicalized fringe.
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SOAR Van Den Hoek says shutter control is also common in humanitarian and conflict contexts: NGOs might try to download a satellite photo of a new refugee camp or a destroyed bridge—imagery that they know has been collected—but find it missing from databases.
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The IFJ report also called out the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed by Israeli forces on May 11 as she was covering an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
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The connections help boost her spirit, after the loneliness and difficulty of living as a refugee.
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It is a surreal feeling to be attending community theater behind City Hall in the State’s Capital written 80 years ago by a refugee of the Nazi regime while a dinner guest of the former president displays swastikas on Twitter that day.
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“We have a film called ‘Dirty Difficult Dangerous,’ which is about a Syrian refugee who falls in love with an Ethiopian worker in Lebanon,” he continues.
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"Generally, I'm here because I want two things out of church," says Kelly Sauskojus, a 27-year-old PhD candidate in English who says she's a refugee from fundamentalist churches.
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We are also thankful to the senator for his steadfast support for rural refugee resettlement in southern Vermont and for his interest in our own role in welcoming and supporting these new Vermonters.
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But her dream was deferred: As a refugee from Cuba, she learned she was required to stay in the U.
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When Mia–young woman dealing with the trauma of her mother’s death–stumbles upon an Alien woman who needs her help, a series of haunting revelations in the refugee forest leads her to an unimaginable truth.
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The plan could address growing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey and bolster Erdogan’s support ahead of next year’s elections, while diluting historically Kurdish-majority areas by resettling non-Kurdish Syrian refugees there.
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LAURA COLLINS-HUGHESA refugee puppet leads the wayOn the plaza at Lincoln Center, the 12-foot-tall Little Amal puppet swayed gently to the music as an ensemble serenaded her from a balcony.
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Co-created by Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef, the half-hour dramedy is based on Amer’s experiences as a Palestinian refugee living and seeking asylum in Texas.
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León left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City.
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Its director, Darin Sallam, has said she based the film off twice-removed real-life testimony from a Palestinian refugee of 1948 who ended up in Syria.
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It also called out the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp.
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Over the past 30 years, artist Paul Scott, who lives in Cumbria, has updated the medium to address some very modern issues: the climate emergency, the refugee crisis, tensions in the Middle East.
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Jeannie Corzo, who works to supply refugee families with medicine, said the the giveaway is a blessing.
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An ethnic Armenian woman at a refugee camp in Port Said, Egypt, in 1918.
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Bell has used the $3 million in prize money (three times what is awarded for the Nobel) to establish a fund to help female, minority and refugee students attain scholarships to become physics researchers.
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All That’s Left Unsaid is set in an Australian neighborhood celebrated for being a vibrant hub of refugee Vietnamese culture, and notorious for widespread drug use and gang violence.
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Winner of model of the year award to be announced today
The stunning list of competitors includes a refugee from South Sudan, a plus-size model and an Indigenous activist.
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Buy on AmazonBookshopThe Naked Don’t Fear the Waterby Matthieu Aikins (Harper)NonfictionIn 2016, while reporting in Afghanistan, the author of this startling, humane account of the “refugee underground” abandoned his passports in order to pass as an Afghan migrant fleeing war-stricken Kabul.
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As the CEO of Liberty Society, an e-commerce platform that produces and sells eco-friendly goods, she weaves refugee empowerment and sustainability into every piece of clothing and every accessory her team creates.
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Juma Majanga reports from the refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.
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People queueing outside Westminster Hall, London on 18 September to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II during the lying in state
A view of the Ter river running dry toward a reservoir near Vilanova de Sau, Catalonia, Spain on 23 November
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People queueing outside Westminster Hall, London on 16 September to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II during the lying in state
Reuters photographer Clodagh Kilcoyne is based in her native Ireland, but also travelled to Ukraine to cover the war there, and to Romania to cover the refugee story caused by the war.
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This moment helped June escape on the refugee train with her youngest daughter, Nichole.
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"Generally, I'm here because I want two things out of church," says Kelly Sauskojus, a 27-year-old PhD candidate in English who says she's a refugee from fundamentalist churches.
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This year’s regional winners are:
Asia Pacific: “Awaken Colour” by OPPO Shenzhen for OPPO Find X3
Europe: “Uprooted” by Halal London for UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency)
Latin America: “Cempasúchil – The Taste Of Reunion” by Media.
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Which is not to say it’s lacking in artistry: the character design and colouring has flashes of last year’s beautiful, emotional refugee docu-drama Flee, with clean, smooth motion and sharp, expressive observations.
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His 2017 film Human Flow focused on the human impact of the refugee crisis based on visits to 23 countries and dozens of refugee camps.
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The remaining episodes are also impressive, tackling timelier stories like that of an Afghan refugee aiming to play piano professionally and working with a lawyer to bring his mother out of the Taliban regime.
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Moreover, when its trailer was released, some Twitter users bashed the idea and questioned the choice of the EU where to spend its money when there is massive drought in East Africa and the UNHCR having funding problems for camp refugee foods, among many more others.
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The third drop also features embroidered bedsheets by South Sudanese women at Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northwestern Uganda, and is the company’s first artisanal collaboration.
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08/12/2022 - Hassan Nazer’s affable second feature follows a young Afghan refugee in a remote area of Iran, who miraculously comes into possession of Asghar Farhadi’s 2017 Oscar statuetteParsa Magari and Helia Mohammadkhani in WinnersAll these gongs, where do they go? We see talent clasping them tightly on a spotlit stage, and in official photocalls afterwards, but rarely ever again.
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A Ukrainian refugee who started teaching herself Gaelic after watching Braveheart is searching for a Scottish host family for her and her daughter — so she can practise the language.
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It’s a multi-page scanned PDF with four months of data from the federal Refugee Processing Center on refugee arrivals by country of origin and U.
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Russia hopes a winter wave of Ukrainian refugees will divide Europe
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Russia's campaign of airstrikes against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure aims to spark a humanitarian crisis and fuel a new winter season refugee wave that Moscow hopes will undermine European support for Ukraine.
Source: Atlantic Council
VIDEO: Celine Dion shares heartfelt message with her fans as she announces career news She wrote: "It's so horrible what's going on in Ukraine and around the world with the refugee situation.
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"Generally, I'm here because I want two things out of church," says Kelly Sauskojus, a 27-year-old PhD candidate in English who says she's a refugee from fundamentalist churches.
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Some students in Ames are using their artistic skills to instill refugee children from war-torn Ukraine with a sense of hope.
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The gorgeous film was a top pick on many critics' Best of 2021 lists and focuses on Amin Nawabi, who tells the story of his journey to Denmark as a child refugee from Afghanistan and the secret he kept hidden for 20 years.
Source: TV Guide
Palestinian media published photos of the map that was apparently dropped by a soldier during the raid in the city of Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp.
Source: The Times of Israel
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AMES, Iowa (KCCI) — Some students in Ames are using their artistic skills to instill refugee children from war-torn Ukraine with a sense of hope.
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It also called out the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp.
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We analyse data from 3,761 samples collected during a large longitudinal carriage study conducted between 2007 and 2010 in the Maela refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Myanmar20.
Source: Nature.com
Butler has been illustrating what happens in war zones, refugee camps and conflict situations in beautiful, delicate ink and watercolour paintings since he embedded with the British army in Afghanistan at the age of 21.
Source: The Guardian
Jules Kounde’s ancestry stretches back to Nigeria, Togo and Benin, while Eduardo Camavinga was born to Congolese parents in a refugee camp in Angola.
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Leon left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City.
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His family soon migrated to Karachi, Pakistan and, during the harrowing journey, he observed numerous atrocities and the displacement of people into refugee camps.
Source: Columbia Daily Tribune
After a handful of years in a refugee camp and in Taiwan, where the couple got married in the mid-1950s, Liu's parents landed in Indiana, which was fitting because they came from what she calls the Midwest of China, where there are a lot of wheat fields, and flour is a core ingredient in many recipes, including the pancakes.
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Previous honoree Carmen de Lavallade introduced the tribute to 79-year-old composer León, who left Cuba as a 24-year-old refugee and was receiving this award only one year after earning the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in music.
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Five ballet dancers took to the stage to honor composer and conductor Tania León, who left Cuba as a refugee in 1967; her passport was stamped “Cancelado” when she left the country.
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