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Exploring the intersections of environment, climate change and displacement.
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As we near the end of another eventful year for refugees and migration policy, our editors select 2018’s best stories and commentary on Refugees Deeply.
A community in Portugal is planning to build a model refugee settlement that is ecologically sustainable and more socially inclusive than most camps. Sara-Duana Meyer examines the idea and its significance for the future of refugee settlements.
Samuel Hall Research Team Independent Think Tank
Ashley Hamer Journalist and Photographer reporting on East Africa
As world leaders meet for the G20 meeting in Hamburg, researchers at Samuel Hall make the case for urgent legal reform and investment to protect climate refugees and help them be more resilient in the face of disaster.
Dunya Habash Filmmaker
As the U.S.-raised daughter of Syrian immigrants, Dunya Habash thought she knew about refugees. But a trip to Jordan’s Zaatari camp challenged the false impressions she had prior to arrival, and reinforced the importance of context in order to tell complete stories.
Samuel Hall Research Team
Ashley Hamer Journalist and Photographer reporting on East Africa
With 17 million people crippled by drought in the Horn of Africa, Samuel Hall researchers and photographer Ashley Hamer explain the realities of climate-induced displacement in Somalia on World Refugee Day.
Jennifer Duncan Senior Attorney and Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa
Ashley Toombs Manager of External Affairs, BRAC USA
Climate change displaces people through immediate disasters like hurricanes and slow-onset disasters like drought and famine. Two disaster and land rights experts offer four recommendations for policymakers to prepare for a future of climate-related migration.
Bruna Kadletz Works with Displaced Communities
In the latest from the Displaced and Disposable series, Bruna Kadletz visits the Juruna tribe, who live by the Xingu River in Brazil and face displacement from their ancestral land due to dam construction and rising tides.
In the first of our interviews with the finalists in a design contest to make marketplaces for refugees, we spoke to architects Ambra Chiaradia and Diana Paoluzzi about their proposal for a cooling system to keep food fresh in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp.
Bruna Kadletz Works with Displaced Communities
As part of our “Displaced and Disposable” series, social researcher Bruna Kadletz meets a Malawian family displaced by the impact of climate change and explores the failure to protect them and other climate refugees.
At the inaugural U.N. meeting on Refugees and Migrants, environmental advocate Kumi Naidoo opens our series “Voices from the Summit” by calling for greater recognition of the links between climate change, conflict and the accelerated movement of peoples.
Native American coastal communities around the U.S. have begun planning moves to higher ground, but worry their ancient ways of life will be lost in the relocation.
As warming seas climb their shores, Marshall Islanders face becoming climate refugees before the international community can decide what rights, if any, that status confers.
A year after the devastating earthquakes in Nepal that left more than 2 million homeless, we visit a mountainous village through the images of photographer Pong Suracheth.
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