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Refugee health on a pound a day

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

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The housing that gives hope to refugees

A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.

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Meet the climate emergency

Find out what led Yinka Shonibare to create the compelling artwork ‘Refugee Astronaut’.

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When you can’t return home

Migrants and refugees cannot choose to return home, so homesickness becomes a profound and long-lasting feeling. This powerful force infuses migrant cultures, and is rarely given the serious attention it warrants.

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  • A camp of huts made out of bamboo and matting, where refugees from Bombay live and work during the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • Bangladeshi refugee camp
  • Insecticide treated blankets trial at refugee camp
  • Treating blankets with insecticide at refugee camp
  • Latin Hospital, Pancaldi near Constantinople: refugee dispensary. Wood engraving.
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • [2 fund raising stamps / stickers? issued by the Polish post office in 1946 to raise funds to "save children". The Hellbrun refugee (DP) camp is named].
  • The Field Lane Refuge.
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