Refugees

How a nation sees its relationship to refugees can have a profound impact on social services and even infrastructure, as shown in new research on Uganda’s unique refugee-hosting model. By Yang-Yang Zhou Unlike the US borders many of us are familiar with...

Even when her colleagues at the American University in Cairo were getting arrested and sentenced to death, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes thought she had kept herself safely under the radar. She was wrong. By Michelle Nicholasen It was a straightforward...

Sarah Dryden-Peterson, associate professor of education at Harvard, shares insights from her team’s work on refugee education around the world. By Michelle Nicholasen Of the sixty-five million people currently displaced worldwide, about half of them are...

For Syrian refugees fortunate enough to reach Germany—a model among European countries for its commitment to refugees—the day-to-day realities and the uncertainty of their futures loom large. Third in a series that asks Weatherhead Center affiliates to...