In 1939, the United States government turned away the M.S. St. Louis and more than 900 desperate Jewish refugees aboard the ship, sending them back to their fates in Europe. Hundreds of rejected ...

Marmar Stewart walked through a newly renovated kitchen for an entrepreneurship program called Chef’s Club. The rented kitchen was used for community events but hadn’t been touched for more than 15 ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. There’s an area in Istanbul that is known as Little Syria. It's in the Fatih district of the city and during the war in Syria this neighborhood ...

He’s been referred to by the rather unwieldy sobriquet of “The Master of Contemporary American Crime Fiction.” And many critics and readers have agreed that he’s a worthy heir to the hardboiled ...

ROCHESTER — Fifty years ago, Rochester became home to its first Vietnamese refugee family. It proved to be a turning point not just for the family but for Rochester as well, though it would take ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The Almenala family fled their farm and orchards in Syria when war destroyed the countryside more than a decade ago. That’s how long it took to get to America, and Syracuse. As they ...

Hundreds wait to welcome a refugee family at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. The family of eight, originally from Afghanistan, was brought to Utah with the ...

In this week’s bonus episode, the panel talks with Julia about her recent book review in the Atlantic of Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson. They discuss ...

Clint Eastwood is the subject of a new biography that lays bare many of his marital — and extramarital — relationships. “By many accounts, including his own, he more or less comported himself as if he ...

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The State Department office that handles refugee issues and works to cut illegal migration will lead the U.S. response to overseas disasters, according to excerpts from ...

Under the dual challenges of the rapid increase in the global population and the intensification of climate change, the traditional agricultural model is facing severe tests. The production mode that ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney Philippa Specker receives funding from an MQ: Transforming Mental Health Postdoctoral ...