World Refugee Day Archives

Here’s what motivates people to host refugees

Leonid Peisakhin, Nik Stoop, and Peter van der Windt - June 19, 2024

Empathy is what drives people to host the displaced, our study found.

Anita R. Kellogg - June 27, 2021

Studies find that refugees pay back more than they’re given and that they revitalize abandoned neighborhoods.

Sara M.T. Polo and Julian Wucherpfennig - June 21, 2021

What the data reveal on the link between hosting refugees and risks of terrorist attacks from foreign groups

Ramya Vijaya, Monica Miller, and David Fletcher - August 15, 2017

Here's the data.

- July 8, 2015

[caption id="attachment_27120" align="aligncenter" width="908"] A Syrian Kurdish woman sits next

Adam Lichtenheld - July 8, 2015

[caption id="attachment_27120" align="aligncenter" width="908"] A Syrian Kurdish woman sits next

Kwamena Onoma - July 1, 2014

[caption id="attachment_12420" align="aligncenter" width="640"] The small towns of Kentzou, Garoua-Boulai

Curtis Ryan - June 20, 2014

[caption id="attachment_12066" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] A soccer tournament in the Za'atari