According to UNCHR, the United Nations refugee agency, at the end of 2019 there were 79.5 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, including 26 million refugees and 4.2 million asylum seekers. The percentage of the world’s population that are displaced is at an...
Climate change in the early 21st century is causing acute and chronic environmental displacement within and across borders.[1] Within the United States, from Puerto Rico to Louisiana to the southern Atlantic Coast to Paradise, California, to the indigenous coastal...
The children who cross Mexico and arrive at the U.S. border are not “immigrants,” not “illegals,” not merely “undocumented minors.” Those children are refugees of a war, and, as such, they should have the right to asylum. But not all of them have it.[1] In the summer...