refugees

Refugee resettlement works. Here's why.

Mary Clark Moschella recommends the best recently published books in her field.

In Rio, refugees will compete under an international flag. Maybe this will inspire new reflection on the purpose of a nation.

"Maybe 5 percent of refugees are ever resettled. Meanwhile, human life is always more than survival."

The prospect of Syrian refugees entering the U.S. has unleashed a wave of fear. But fear, while understandable, is an unreliable guide to policy.

Aid organizations are overwhelmed by the scale of the current mass migration from the Middle East. So the work has fallen on other volunteers.

Religious people have been their own worst enemies in recent weeks. 

First came a study from the journal Current Biology showing that children from religious families are less generous and more punitive than their peers, and that the more exposure to religion they received, the worse they behaved.  

When you read children’s literature you expect to smile at the quirky characters fumbling to figure out their growing independence. You might expect to cry as you watch characters face the pain of growing up.

You don’t expect to be confronted by current events like a refugee crisis—and inspired to imagine the kind of society we could be even in the face of terror and fear.

As a child, I liked to survey strangers about what it means to be human. Brandon Stanton has created a fully realized version of what I was doing.

It's a humanitarian crisis that has riveted the international community: refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere seeking asylum from civil war and violence. Images of the small, drowned body of Aylan Kurdi ignited our consciences and challenged world leaders to begin addressing the needs of these refugees.

The surge of unaccompanied minors into countries like Sweden mirrors the marked increase of Central American children entering the United States in 2014, fleeing violence at home.

The wrenching dislocations of World War II were often pitilessly ignored by the world. What story will be told of our time, and of us?

Last year, the U.S. took thousands of "family units" into custody at the southern border. Nearly every woman cites violence as the reason she fled.

Early last summer, the Obama administration opened a detention center in the remote town of Artesia, New Mexico, in order to detain Central American women who cross the southern border with their children. The facility was a centerpiece of the administration’s policy of family detention, which aims to “send a message,” as Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson said, that asylum seekers from these countries are not welcome.

Obama's budget includes more money to detain undocumented children. At the largest family detention center, the average child is age six.

Uganda hosts one refugee for every 160 residents. That’s more than seven times the burden the U.S. bears.

As many as 13.6 million people have been displaced by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. What can American Christians do?

Instead of seeking the ability to deport Central American children faster, Obama should treat this situation as the refugee crisis it is.

Taking in refugees, giving asylum—these are things that generous people from a better place do for helpless people from a worse place. But we aren’t actually better.