The major defining component of what makes one a refugee and what makes one an asylee is the place where one applies for refugee status.

The Sudanese lost boys established a chain of command, delegated tasks and did their best to survive on the limited amount of resources they could scavenge. They became each other’s only and often last concept of family.

Waiting in a potentially unending state of limbo, refugees cannot decide when they will leave the refugee camp, where they will go, or even under what circumstances.

Not only were Alnidawi’s circumstances extraordinary, but he also worked for U.S. citizens while in Baghdad…If his whole neighborhood were bombed, that wouldn’t be enough to grant him asylum. Something must have happened on a more personal level.

Shortly after Ernest Pyaohn arrived at O’Hare International Airport as a refugee from a camp in Thailand, he was employed. His job: Working at O’Hare Airport.

The location of relatives and preexisting ethnic communities of that group are the primary criteria in deciding where in the United States to place a refugee.

Cynthia faced a dangerous outcome if she were denied asylum. She’d fled from Burundi and the ethnic violence between Hutus and Tutsis.