Refugees in example sentence

And we discussed this issue with two groups that have been coming to the USA from Southeast Asia: the Hmong, who started coming in the mid-1970s as refugees from the Vietnam War and the US secret war in Laos; and the Karen, who have been coming more recently as refugees from Myanmar.

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This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.

Eighty percent of refugees around the world are women and children.

She grew up in Sudan, in Southern Sudan, for 20 years of war, where it killed one million people and displaced five million refugees.

Currently, most refugees live in the cities rather than in the refugee camps.

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