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Refugee News
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Recent News Releases and Stories
- Community Service Provider and Former Refugee, Receives California Peace Prize - Santa Ana Leader Receives $25,000 Cash Award
- Former Refugee Family Achieves the Dream of American Home Ownership
- U.S. must address Somalia crisis
- Senator Ted Kennedy after visiting Ethiopia in 1985
- Iraqi refugees find U.S. life not what they expected
- Iraqis replace Vietnamese as top refugee group settling in Inland region
- Dancing Away From Tragedy
- Somali refugees start grocery store
- Fewer refugees finding solace in Sacramento County
- Promonient Refugees
- UNHCR distributes aid to Afghan refugees affected by conflict in Pakistan
- Among Worst Places for Refugees: Thailand, South Africa, Gaza; and Among Best: Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica; World Refugee Survey Goes Wiki
National and World News on Refugees
- U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
- Human Rights Watch
- International Rescue Committee
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Public Affairs Media and Information
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees News
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants News Source
- Cultural Orientation Resource Center - Refugees in the News
- Center for Immigration Studies (CISNEWS) provides a subscription service to coverage on refugees and asylum seekers.