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Ambivalence about refugees runs high in Denmark. Danes are critical of a new law requiring police to take cash and valuables from asylum seekers. But they're also nervous about rising refugee numbers.

A new documentary by New Hampshire filmmaker Doria Bramante follows exiles from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan as they abandon their twenty-year…

Currently, there are about 100 refugees living in Afghanistan. But the country has no asylum laws, and the refugees are fighting for legal status or resettlement elsewhere.

The Trump administration recently announced it was no longer giving money to a program for Palestinian refugees. In cutting the funding, the U.S. shifted away from decades of policy.

As many as 50,000 people may have died from hunger and disease resulting from fighting in western Sudan. Refugees in camps along the Sudan-Chad border face severe water and food shortages but say they're too afraid to return to their villages. Hear NPR's Jason Beaubien.

More than half the shelter residents who are seeking asylum asked to move. But they are staying after Swedish authorities said there was nowhere else to go.

A senate committee has voted to send a bill that would allow communities to ask for a one year moratorium on refugee resettlement for further study.The…

Manchester officials are calling for a moratorium on refugee resettlement. Before anyone else arrives, city leaders say current refugees need more help…

One Turkish city near the areas devastated by last month's earthquakes is applying what it's learned in hosting war refugees to how to welcome quake evacuees.

Larry Macaulay is a former engineer, a Nigerian refugee in Germany, and now a radio host. He founded the Refugee Radio Network to counter the media's negative stereotypes about refugees.