From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees

From Michigan to the Middle East and Back: The Path from Storytelling to System-Building – MLPP

I’m riding on the back of my friend’s motorcycle in Lebanon, interviewing Syrian refugees as they’re being forcibly evicted from their homes. As a journalist, I believe that storytelling has the power to change lives, and the stories they offer recount their escape from war only to be systemically dispossessed by a country pursuing a policy of immigrant deterrence. “They took our things and threw them in the street,” they tell me, “they said we …

From border control to belonging: How host communities gain from empowering refugees

With humanitarian aid in decline, the international community must shift its focus from short-term relief efforts to inclusive policies that support both refugees and host communities.