Sentences with phrase «war refugees»

Hüseyin's family just relocated from Syria as war refugees.

Thanks to a remarkable woman, young war refugees from three continents have found a new home on a soccer team in Georgia

Believe me when I say that after you've been through lactic acid training, cluster training, high rep partials and triple drop rebounds even a stint at a second world war refugee camp will seem like a pleasant relaxing vacation in the Bahamas!

Shot on the Malaysian island of Bidong, a former Vietnam war refugee camp, it mirrors the present refugee crisis at a time when millions of Syrian refugees have fled their homeland.

The rationale was that Cuba had already permitted entry to a large number of war refugees, including 2,500 Jews, and that these new immigrants were competing for scarce jobs in the wake of the Great Depression.

The video exhibited in ABOUT - FACE is titled Nước (Water / Homeland), and is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American teen who attempts to piece together and understand their mom's experience as a Vietnam War refugee.

A beekeeper, a Gitmo commander and a Bosnian war refugee all want the same thing.

In this sf novel marked by wit, violence, and hope, war refugee Ariel is sent to a camp affiliated with the Alex division, an arm of his adoptive father's company focused on resurrection science and biodrone development.

Instead of selling the excess garments which were already produced prior to their boycott, the Spanish clothing retailer has decided to ship a donation of US$ 878,000 worth of 23,000 angora wool sweaters to Syrian war refugees in need.

A few miles from Punta Gorda is the site of the former Toledo settlement where American Civil War refugees settled.

In the 1940s - 50s, we were involved in finding child care and housing for the new breed of working mothers, assistance for war widows and their families, housing for returned GIs and their families, employment for war refugees, and marriage counseling for couples who found that the war had changed them.

However, at the same time up to 12,000 war refugees from Eastern Europe were descending on Australia per year.

Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.

Ira Glass covers escaping from home, war refugees in the U.S., trying to make history, underdogs, troubled marriages, and more.

Apart from this, The Netherlands is a welcoming country for political and war refugees.

To considerable applause, Swinton asked reporters: «Can we get out of the habit calling people in this situation migrants; they are war refugees.»

After 1924, Ellis Island was host only to people who had problems with their paperwork, as well as displaced people and war refugees, certainly not as many people as it once had.

Durham's riff on historical monuments, specifically referencing one which is the very symbol of France, is especially ironic as France and the European Union countries close their borders to war refugees, and alludes the recent destruction by ISIS of the Arch of Triumph in the ancient city of Palmyra.

You may say that these are war refugees, not environmental refugees, but you'd be wrong: ultimately, these wars are over dwindling resources.

All scholarship on the relationship between climate migration and unrest (including Kelley et al's paper) makes clear that there is always a complex of factors, which begs the question: can international law make decisions on conferring migrant or refugee status if someone is, say, a 30 % climate migrant, a 20 % economic migrant, and a 50 % war refugee?

She immigrated to the U.S. as a war refugee when she was a young child and eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen preparing the documents herself.