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Refugee in sentence

1188 examples of Refugee in a sentence

I am that refugee, and I am that girl.
Currently, most refugees live in the cities rather than in the refugee camps.
In my country, I lived already in the city, and we felt Kampala was much better than a refugee camp.
In addition to the poverty problem we were confronted with as the local urban poor, we were facing challenges due to our refugee status, such as a language barrier.
Where do refugee hearts go?
And the women, who I was so privileged to meet when there were three survivors, told these stories about lying in their cots in the refugee camps.
You don't see a refugee first and you don't see a woman first and you don't see a person with disability first.
Refugee return, which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees thought would be extremely unlikely, has largely happened.
At 11, he was interrogated by the Sri Lankan military, accused of being a terrorist, and his parents sent him on his own to Britain as a refugee seeking political asylum.
But he was a political refugee from Angola.
And today, I think it's even more important than ever if we want to address rising inequality, climate change, the refugee crisis, just to name a few major issues.
After three months in a refugee camp, we landed in Melbourne.
Tan Le, anonymous Footscray resident, was now Tan Le, refugee and social activist, invited to speak in venues she had never heard of and into homes whose existence she could never have imagined.
You are a refugee.
From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.
When I was 12, I came to America with Claire and her family on refugee status.
I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee.
Refugee Galina Pyshnyak told this story to Russia's First TV channel.
Later that year, an activist helped me escape China and go to the United States as a refugee.
But I was so surprised to see the shelter, refugee camp organized by the U.N. They're so poor, and they are freezing with blankets during the rainy season, In the shelters built by the U.N., they were just providing a plastic sheet, and the refugees had to cut the trees, and just like this.
For the last two and a half years, I'm one of the few, if not the only, child psychiatrist operating in refugee camps, shorelines and rescue boats in Greece and the Mediterranean Sea.
During my time on the Greek island of Lesbos and on the rescue boats in the Mediterranean, thousands of refugee boats arrived to the shoreline, crowded with more than 1.5 million refugees.
I want to tell you about Omar, a five-year-old Syrian refugee boy who arrived to the shore on Lesbos on a crowded rubber boat.
But I landed in a refugee situation that had a million refugees in 40 camps, and there were six of us doctors.
And I founded Maysoon's Kids, a charity that hopes to give Palestinian refugee children a sliver of the chance my parents gave me.
And this applies not just to people who have been living in the USA for many generations, but also to immigrants and refugees, who, for most immigrant and refugee groups, arrive in the USA metabolically healthy, and then within a few years, they become just as high-risk for obesity and diabetes as other Americans.
So we've been working for a few years with these local communities and clinicians to study what happens to the Hmong and Karen microbiomes when people move from refugee camps and villages in Thailand to the USA.
Over 85,000 students are enrolled in schools here, which makes up 40 percent of the refugee population.
(Applause and cheering) To be standing here in Kakuma refugee camp feels so surreal, and I'm overcome with so much emotion.
This is when I started losing hope, and I wanted nothing more than return to Kakuma, a refugee camp.
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