With regional conflict driving millions of refugees from the Middle East and Ukraine to leave their homes for safe haven in Europe, a powerful narrative has emerged: The tides of immigration are ...

A year has passed since the peak of what has been called – though I am not sure the terminology is correct – the “European refugee crisis”. A year in which this “crisis” has become a significant ...

According to the United Nations, about 186,000 migrants or refugees arrived in Southern Europe in 2023 so far. The majority of Southern Europe's refugees and migrants departed from Tunisia or Libya, ...

“Europe faces a refugee crisis.” This seems to be the standard media description of the current movement of refugees to Europe—the largest migration to the continent since World War II—with at least a ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomed today the launch of an innovative “Refugee Coalition for Europe”. The Coalition, which brings together refugee representatives living in different European ...

To mark International Migrants Day on December 18, RFE/RL’s language services have come together to focus on the migrant and refugee issues most affecting the 23 countries in our broadcast region. You ...

The physical, psychological and financial trauma that results from abruptly leaving life as you knew it behind, not to mention loved ones who remain in danger, runs deep. But having a job can give ...

The European Union and its national governments are responding to the arrival of several thousand desperate refugees on Italy’s Lampedusa island in recent days by massively stepping up their war on ...

Thanks to a grant from Bowdoin’s Russian department, Gramley spent much of the break as an international language volunteer in Krakow, Poland, where he worked at the distribution centers of two aid ...

European countries are reconsidering policy toward the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in the hope of stemming the tide of migration and getting at least some of the 1.2 million Syrians who ...

The U.N. said the five refugees have frozen to death already this year. — -- Freezing temperatures across Eastern Europe are imperiling the lives of thousands of refugees, many of whom are ...