Videos

Historians Carl Bon Tempo and Maria Cristina Garcia outlined the evolution of refugee policy from the immediate post-war period through the Refugee Act of 1980, which amended several laws…

This 1946 Academy Award-winning short U.S. Army film depicts the crisis of millions of refugees and orphans at the end of World War II. Showing many graphic scenes of traumatized, hungry,…

Migration Policy Institute’s Sarah Pierce discusses the criteria for and process of seeking asylum in the U.S.

Economic and migration experts talked about the economic impact of refugees and other migrants. William Kerr, a Harvard Business School professor, also discussed findings in a book he wrote on…

The Niskanen Center hosted an event in Washington, DC on refugee resettlement in the United States. The first panel focused on the history of accepting refugees and the foreign policy…

International Refugee Assistance Project’s Adam Bates talked about the Trump administration’s decision to reduce the number of refugees who can come to the U.S.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. plans on resettling up to 30,000 refugees and processing more than 280,000 asylum seekers for fiscal year 2019. He said the United States is the…

Rebecca Erbelding of the Holocaust Museum provided a history of the War Refugee Board, created in 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the objective of assisting Jewish refugees.

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence visited a church and shelter in Brazil and spoke to a group of Venezuelan migrant children and families. He pledged U.S. support to the Venezuelans…

Vice President defended migrants fleeing Venezuela to Brazil, while also making a distinction with those migrants from other Central American countries crossing the U.S.-Mexico border…

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, spoke with migrants fleeing Venezuela at a shelter in Brazil.

Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks after touring a Venezuelan migrant center in Brazil.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies held a forum on the global economic and national security implications resulting from the forced migration of refugees due to armed…

State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert answered reporters' questions concerning the Trump administration’s decision to withhold $65 million in funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) responsible for helping…

David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee, offered his thoughts on the global refugee crisis and what can be done about it.

Helen Thorpe talked about her book The Newcomers, in which she reports on twenty-two refugee teenagers at a Denver high school. She spoke at the 2017 Miami Book Fair.

Panelists talked about refugees. Panelists included Deborah Campbell, author of A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, and Oscar Martinez, author of A…

Tom Connell hosted a program wrapping up the latest sitting session of Australia’s Parliament, which took place October 16 - 27, 2017. Topics debated included Australia’s handling of asylum…

Witnesses testified at an oversight hearing to examine the Refugee Admissions Program and concerns relating to issues of fraud and abuse, vetting procedures, and national security.…

Experts from the United Nations and State Department talked about the strength and weaknesses of the U.S. refugee resettlement program. The panelists examined the Heritage Foundation’s…