Refugees may be vulnerable to exploitation ... At UNHCR, we work to maximise the skills, productivity and experience that displaced populations bring to urban areas, striving to help those who have ...

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge: Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2011 New Approaches to Urban Refugee Liveliho... Increasingly refugees live in urban areas—usually ...

Immigrants and refugees have tended to flock to areas where ... recognizing how vacant lots can often cause problems in urban neighborhoods. “We’ve got a lot of programs around just building ...

The Urban refugee program supports refugees and asylum-seekers who have been authorized to reside in urban areas, including Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Meru-Maua, Isiolo and Bungoma.

How refugees transform our cities What challenges do urban refugees face - from host governments and from the communities already living there? Displacement as fundamental to the development of the ...

Ammar Awad/Reuters Refugee health needs in non-camp, urban settings have increasingly shifted to noncommunicable diseases. Providing preventive care and specialist treatment requires a massive ...

The world’s second largest refugee camp is slowly but surely transforming into a permanent city. In Uganda’s Bidibidi refugee camp, markets become lively meeting places after dark. Kennedy ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has instructed the military to prepare for a prolonged presence in some of the West Bank's urban refugee camps, which have been emptied of 40,000 Palestinians.