The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”

How Germany sorts people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.

In the fall of 2015, Germany designated Sumte, population 102, as a sanctuary for nearly 800 refugees. What followed was a living experiment in the country’s principles.

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. The patients, doctors say, seem to have lost the will to live.

One refugee’s escape from Syria.

The Piano Man of Yarmouk fled the ruins of Damascus to a life of criss-crossing Germany playing songs about his old neighborhood to huge crowds. Because of refugee law, he is paid nothing.

Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.

What America owes those it takes in.

The daily life and dwindling hopes of a 12-year-old Syrian refugee.

A Syrian refugee’s epic escape route through Europe.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.