Research Guides: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: People's Experiences & Stories

Personal is Powerful

MSF: Forced from Home
This is a powerful exhibit on the experience of being a refugee or displaced. Here you'll find interviews, videos and more about people's experiences.
The Most Important Thing
This is an on-going photo series by Brian Sokol, in which he "captures the faces and stories of refugees forced to flee their homes."
Humans of New York: Interviews with Syrian Refugees
In 2015, Brandon Stanton, the photographer of "Humans of New York" traveled to Jordan and Turkey to interview Syrian refugee families. See and read some of them here.

"We Had to Leave," A Refugee Story from Greece

Part of the Forced from Home exhibit, this the story of "one refugee at Moira refugee camp explaining why he and his family left war-torn Afghanistan, boarded a dangerously overcrowded boat, and set off into rough winter waters. (1:40 minutes)

Here's What the US Refugee Screening Process Looks Like

A video from the Dept. of Homeland Security about the screening process that refugees coming into the United States go through. You can also see this screening process as an infographic.