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Migrants, Displaced People and Refugees

War, economic crisis and climate change can trigger mass migrations of people. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Migrants, Displaced People and Refugees” feature reporting that covers refugees, migrants and internally displaced people. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on migrants, displaced people and refugees.

 

June 30, 2020 | The Texas Observer, El Malpensado

Between Borders

Anna-Catherine Brigida, Acacia Coronado, and Emily Kinskey

From a doctor stranded in Ciudad Juárez to a shelter closed after an outbreak, COVID-19 is hitting hard along the Texas-Mexico border.

June 29, 2020 | The City

How COVID-19 Hit Puerto Rican New Yorkers Hard in the Bronx and Beyond

Vanessa Colón Almenas, Víctor Rodríguez Velázquez, Mc Nelly Torres, and Coral Murphy

An investigation by Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism found the areas with the highest number of COVID-19 infections and deaths coincide with the counties with the highest proportion of Puerto Ricans in the United States.

June 13, 2020 | Pulitzer Center

Pickled Limes

Kalyanee Mam

Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam reflects on how her family has used food to heal and sustain themselves, from their time in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime to their current experiences with COVID-19.

Nomads in Iran

Newsha Tavakolian

This project focuses on the nomadic communities of southern Iran whose pastoral lifestyle—and access to rangeland that such a lifestyle depends on—is threatened.

Myanmar’s Looming Land Conflict Epidemic

Victoria Milko, Clare Hammond, Eva Constantaras, Thomas Kean, Ye Mon

Myanmar's reintegtation into the international community has spurred ethnic strife and a mass migration of people from the country.

A Table For All

Thea Piltzecker, Liz Scherffius

In the film A Table for All refugees and asylees seek employment in the New York City restaurant industry. Adapting to a kitchen in a new city, they find common ground in food and cultural exchange.

Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel

Caron Creighton

Asylum seekers to Israel are faced with a number of struggles. For example, there are many anti-immigrant polices that force them into undesirable situations in order to remain in the country.

Myanmar's Rohingya: Anatomy of a Genocide

Jason Motlagh, Mark Oltmann, Patrick Brown

In 2017, Myanmar’s military targeted Rohingya Muslims in a pogrom of mass murder and rape. We investigate the deadliest massacre of a state-orchestrated genocide, years in the making.

A Safe Place to Learn and Grow

Jaime Joyce

Who are the Rohingya? Why have they fled Myanmar? "A Safe Place to Learn and Grow" takes young readers to Bangladesh to learn what is being done to help refugee children heal and access education.

Jamaica: Voices of the Windrush Generation

Monica Long

Imagine Jamaican emigrants having their dreams of working in the United Kingdom with full citizenship fulfilled, and then suddenly being evicted from their homes purchased with their blood, sweat, and tears.

June 09, 2015 | Meet the Journalist

Meet the Journalist: Sim Chi Yin

Sim Chi Yin

Photojournalist Sim Chi Yin discusses her reporting on a family affected by silicosis, an occupational lung disease that affects an estimated 6 million in China, most of them miners.

April 28, 2015 | Meet the Journalist

Meet the Journalist: Alia Malek

Alia Malek

One hundred years after the Armenian genocide in Turkey, Alia Malek examines how sectarian allegiances are erasing history as she explores the fate of those living in Turkey, Syria, and Armenia.

September 05, 2016 | High School, College

The Arab Spring Monologues

Kem Knapp Sawyer

This lesson provides guidelines for students to create their own play based on "Fractured Lands," a story published by The New York Times Magazine in the print edition on August 14, 2016.

June 24, 2016 | Middle School, High School

The Nanny's Child

Alice Proujansky

This 45-minute lesson uses a radio piece and photo essay to prompt discussion about immigration and the phenomenon of transnational parenting.

June 23, 2016 | All Grades

Thinking Like a Journalist

Fareed Mostoufi

Guide students through the process of investigating images, evaluating captions, and exploring slow journalism.