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There are 70 million refugees in the world. Here are 5 solutions to the problem
This week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, labelled the world’s refugee problem a crisis that is primarily impacting developing countries, who are hosting most of the…
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It’s the highest number of people fleeing violence since the second world war, the agency said in a report.
Last year, 37,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day.
My colleague and I have conducted extensive research on refugees at the US-Mexico border and in Southeast Asia and Australia, studying the lives of people in detention, in transit, and resettled in host countries.
In all these cases, an…