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Telling Refugee Stories

Narratives about New York Refugees, written by Columbia Journalism School students

Go to the profile of Eenee Purevdorj
Eenee Purevdorj
May 16

Exiled, Not Silenced: How Russia’s Journalists Are Continuing Their Work, and Rebuilding Their Lives

By Eenee Purevdorj

The journalist Anna Zueva fled from the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, to Estonia, in March 2023. Zueva had been…

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Go to the profile of Ray
Ray
May 15

Uyghur Americans’ Hopeful Uncertainty

How Struggle and Resilience Shape the Lives of the Chinese Uyghurs in Exile

By a Columbia Journalism student who has a well-founded fear of political repercussion in their country for…

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Go to the profile of Elizaveta Golovtsova
Elizaveta Golovtsova
May 15

The Other Kind of Russian

How racial discrimination turned into a campaign of almost certain death for Russia’s ethnic minorities–forcing…

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Go to the profile of Adali Frias Deniz
Adali Frias Deniz
May 15

Medications, healthcare, and migration: an invisible thread

For refugees who migrate to the U.S. in order to obtain healthcare and medication for HIV, federal funding cuts and deportation threats are putting their lives in danger — and may setback the global fight to eradicate HIV/AIDS.

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Go to the profile of Elizaveta Golovtsova
Elizaveta Golovtsova
Apr 25

Amidst policy uncertainty, asylum seekers’ fates are left to the judge

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Go to the profile of Duaa e Zahra Shah
Duaa e Zahra Shah
Apr 14

“What kind of home is that?” One woman’s escape from the Taliban, to Pakistan, and beyond

From conversations with Sara, whose family fled Afghanistan in the 2000s to Lahore, Pakistan, where they lived as refugees. Sara asked that her last name not be used out of fear…

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