Immigrants and Refugees

Giving Compass’ Take: • German Institute for International and Security Affairs identifies funding challenges and shortfalls in the global effort to protect refugees.   • This paper is written from a perspective…

As we are witnessing with this past month’s evacuations and resettlement of Afghans forced to leave their country and the thousands of vulnerable Haitians seeking safety in other countries due…

It would be naive to think that security and safeguarding are not essential to humanitarian assistance. Harvard’s Signal program, which promotes the safe and effective use of information technologies in humanitarian…

Recent events on the world stage in Afghanistan and Haiti are bringing up a number of issues that should strike a familiar tone in the world of philanthropy. When commentators…

Each year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children make dangerous journeys around the globe on their own to arrive at the southern border of the United States, seeking safety. …

Since Asian Americans first began to immigrate to the United States almost two centuries ago, we have been framed as perpetual foreigners. Racist portrayals in film and television, references to…

Over time, many inmates incur large debts due to fines, court and public defender fees, and the like. Added to this burden are previous debt obligations, incurred prior to incarceration.…

The evacuation of more than 100,000 civilians from Afghanistan is over, and Afghan refugees have started arriving in the United States, at military bases in other countries, or elsewhere for asylum processing.…

Philanthropy is stepping up to provide support to Afghan refugees, including a $15.7 million grants from the LEGO Foundation, a $10 million emergency fund from Open Society Foundations, and a…

Whether it’s a pandemic, climate disaster, or seeking new economic opportunities, humanity has been on the move since the earliest of times. In the United States, more than 40 million…

The reason we should care about refugees is because they are people. But, unfortunately, for many people that is an insufficient moral claim. Even for the tens of thousands of…

There is no doubt that many Afghan citizens will need protection in the weeks and months ahead. What remains shrouded in uncertainty, however, is the magnitude of need and where…