Global Sisters Report is bringing a sharper focus to the plight of refugees through this special series, Seeking Refuge, which will follow the journeys refugees make. For more GSR coverage on migration around the world, click here.

Editorial: Sisters' refugee ministries light the way forward

by GSR Staff
Aug 2, 2018

Editorial: In our reporting for our special Seeking Refuge series, we found a new urgency and a new inspiration. The testimonies of refugees illustrate that we cannot look away from the challenge of migration; the work of religious sisters shows us that much is possible.

Seeking Refuge: For Hondurans, staying home is more perilous than taking the migrant path

by David Agren
Aug 2, 2018

Honduras ranks as the sixth most unequal country in the world. Drug cartels are common, and workers are subjected to extortion. Women are fleeing Honduras to protect their children from gangs: boys are forced to become foot soldiers while girls are preyed upon against their wills. Now under tougher U.S. policies, gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum claims. And deportees are arriving back in Honduras in massive numbers. 

• Also in this series: As resettlement agency in Kansas closes, other doors open

Seeking Refuge: As resettlement agency in Kansas closes, other doors open

by Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Jul 26, 2018

The International Rescue Committee in Garden City, Kansas, is closing down in September, one of the casualties of Trump administration policies to reduce the number of refugees settling in the U.S., echoing a political ethos that first began brewing in Kansas in 2015. More than 22 percent of Garden City's residents are foreign-born, even though Kansas isn't a major primary resettlement destination — but there is ready employment in the meat-packing industry.

• Also in this series: Fitting in without losing cultural roots, Burmese refugees advance in Indiana

Seeking Refuge: Fitting in without losing cultural roots, Burmese refugees advance in Indiana

by Dan Stockman
Jul 19, 2018

America has long been known as a melting pot, but those who work with refugees say that idea misses the point. In a melting pot, the ingredients lose their individuality and become one with the whole. Rather than assimilation, they say, the goal should be integration — to be part of the whole without losing cultural, ethnic and religious identity. The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Fort Wayne, Indiana, have helped thousands of Burmese refugees make their way in this midwestern city of 266,000.

• Also in this series: Painful memories, new cultures confront resettled families

Controversy over migration continues to upend European politics

by Chris Herlinger
Jul 12, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Painful memories, new cultures confront resettled families

by Chris Herlinger
Jul 12, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Sisters shelter, support asylum-seekers as they adapt to US

by Maria Benevento
Jul 5, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Jordan takes in masses of Syrians but prefers they don't stay

by Melanie Lidman
Jun 28, 2018

Refugee students want 'a future after all the trauma they've had'

by Melanie Lidman
Jun 21, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Ugandans, displaced once themselves, welcome South Sudan refugees

by Melanie Lidman
Jun 21, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Global Sisters Report begins special series on refugees

by Chris Herlinger
Jun 18, 2018

Seeking Refuge: Learn more from these resources about migration trends, Catholic action

by GSR Staff
Jun 18, 2018

'Too often we turn away': the faces of the global refugee crisis

by GSR Staff
Jun 18, 2018