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Religious Resettlement Agencies Funnel Refugees to Exploitative Slaughterhouse Work

Starting in the 1980s U.S. religious organizations began to take over the government’s role in resettling refugees, often in dangerous and underpaid slaughterhouse and meatpacking...

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How Fear of Deportation Silences Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Heightened immigration enforcement across the United States has created a dangerous environment for immigrant survivors of gender-based violence whose fear of deportation or arrest by...

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A Child’s Journey: From Kabul’s Dreams to Survival in Pakistan

The walls of exile echo with silence, but inside that silence, hunger, fear, and survival scream loudly. In refugee settlements across Pakistan, hunger gnaws at...

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Policy Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Comparative Study of Syrian Refugees

In a world where an increasing number of people are displaced for longer periods, safety from violence is only the first step toward a life...

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Transnational State Repressions, Abductions, and Refoulements in the Horn of Africa

Domestic repression and human rights abuses are well documented across the Horn of Africa, yet cross-border repression remains underexamined despite growing evidence of systematic transnational...

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How China-Myanmar Relations Impact the Rohingya Crisis

Introduction How do China’s geopolitical actions and aspirations impact Myanmar’s domestic politics, particularly regarding the Rohingya refugee crisis? Taking a closer look at China’s historical...

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Hope in Exile: Afghan Refugee Children Struggle for Education in Pakistan

In August 2021, my family had to leave our Kabul home, and all that was familiar to us, when Taliban came back to power. At...

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Applying Modern Monetary Theory to the Housing Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia

Housing as a Human Right Housing is recognized as an essential element of human dignity. Article 25 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...

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Suffering for Security: How the Refugee Crisis Leaves People Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

This blog piece from, M.A student Meaghan Phillips, is calling for the expansion of the definition of persecution within the 1951 Refugee Convention and for...

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Religious Resettlement Agencies Funnel Refugees to Exploitative Slaughterhouse Work

How Fear of Deportation Silences Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

A Child’s Journey: From Kabul’s Dreams to Survival in Pakistan

Policy Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Comparative Study of Syrian Refugees

Transnational State Repressions, Abductions, and Refoulements in the Horn of Africa

How China-Myanmar Relations Impact the Rohingya Crisis

Hope in Exile: Afghan Refugee Children Struggle for Education in Pakistan

Applying Modern Monetary Theory to the Housing Needs of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia

Suffering for Security: How the Refugee Crisis Leaves People Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

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