Essay: Refugees are living longer in exile than ever before, with complex consequences for them and their host communities
SHARIF A WAHAB, a Bangladeshi scholar who researches refugees’ everyday lives, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at why the number of people remaining refugees for five years or longer more than doubled over the past decade…
Syrian refugees cling on in Turkey, Lebanon as fears over coerced returns grow
Beirut, LebanonReuters The first Syrian refugees in Lebanon to return home under a new repatriation scheme will leave on Wednesday, but few in worn-down camps in the central Bekaa Valley said they would sign up. Rights groups fear the programme may not be as voluntary as it purports to be, at a time when concerns […]