Approximately 4,500 Yazidi refugees live in Fidanlik Park, a camp established in Diyarbakir, Turkey after tens of thousands of Yazidis from Singar in Iraq escaped ISIS. Eleven camps across the border region have been established to provide Yazidis with temporary refuge. Most of the camps...

Located in the desolate southeast of Mauritania, the Mbera refugee camp is home to some 60,000 Malian refugees. Predominantly Tuareg and Arab, they spoke of fleeing persecution at the hands of black Malians and the Malian army. Few were optimistic about the prospects for peace, or a safe return to ...

This is the story of refugees, told by those who live it, the refugees themselves. For more than two decades, I have worked to empower people in vulnerable situations by training them to tell their own stories. These are the remarkable images by the children of Kawergosk Refugee Camp who were been trained ...

It is estimated that over two million Burmese refugees live in Thailand, with a high percentage living on the popular island of Phuket. Behind the expensive hotels and beaches packed with tourists hides a large community of Burmese migrants trying to carve out a living in the fishing industry while ...

Children of the World/Boston is a series of documentary portraits of children from immigrant families living in the Boston area. I met many immigrant families in my job as a social worker, and was fascinated to learn about their lives. I began photographing the children, and listened to how they ...

Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and ptjer countries. These people escaped war in their own country and are dreaming a new life in Europe. They pay $1,200-$2,000 to smugglers to risk their life to cross the ocean between Turkey and Greece. When they arrive at a shore of Lesvos island in Greece, some of...

Meaning both "destination" and "destiny" in Spanish, Destino portrays the perilous journey of undocumented Central American migrants along the network of freight trains lurching inexorably across Mexico, towards the hope of finding a better life in the United States. It is ...

After spending a good part of the summer of 2015 talking to Syrian refugees in Berlin about their journeys, so unimaginable in many ways, I decided to document their extraordinary passage into Europe. In late September I flew into Izmir, a large Turkish coastal city where most refugees find their ...

For more than 10 years. Albertina d'Urso has followed in the footsteps of Tibetans forced to escape from their homeland, many of whom crossed the Himalayan range by foot, to...

We can argue about politics, the economy, religion and all we can think of, but there should be no arguments when it comes to human lives in peril.  I come from a country, Greece, that has been facing the worse economic crisis in modern history and its people have been suffering more ...

LAMPEDUSA. Undocumented immigrants from North African countries inhabit the same 20 square kilometer area as tourists vacationing on the island but without ever meeting. For those seeking asylum, the crowded immigration detention centers on the island are akin to open-air prisons where human rights ...

The lives of hundreds of Somalis intersect in the suburb of Mayfair in Johannesburg. A space of opportunity, of refuge, and a home for the Somali diaspora in the city. A multi-layered site where Somali migrants, as urban refugees, renegotiate cultural practices in a foreign, and occasionally hostile...

During the first half of September up to 60,000 people passed the Serbian-Hungarian border to enter the European Union. Since the 175 km long border fence was already being set up, everybody walked over the only opening still existing: a 20 meter wide area with a railway line in between. This little opening...

Parc Kado Refugee Camp, Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, October 2015 - Hundreds of refugees live in squalor in refugee camps in the southern border town of Anse-a-Pitres, since the Dominican government started deporting Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent. The region is non-arable with no possibility ...

Greece has become a flashpoint for the migrant crisis in Europe over the past year. More than 1 million people illegally crossed into Europe in 2015 alone, with some 800,000 of them arriving via Greece. Most of the migrants were coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq but also from other countries. ...

From September 2014 to February 2015 I traveled through the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan) to document the fate and living conditions of refugees from the conflicts after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In several previous visits to the Caucasus I encountered...