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Urban Refugees

In Kenya's “little Mogadishu,” a precarious life for urban refugees

Eastleigh, a suburb of Nairobi, is known as “little Mogadishu” because of the high concentration of Somali immigrants.

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
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Syria crisis has displaced 500,000 says UN; more families cross border

Syrian refugee Fawaz now lives in Jordan with his wife and nine children in a two room structure that had been abandoned for years before they found it. The roof leaks, and while there's a makeshift toilet, there's no plumbing. They've tapped into a neighbor's utilities for electricity and drinking water. There's very little housing left in Jordan near its border with Syria, and rental prices have more than doubled in the past year due to the influx of refugees.

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC

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"It could be any one of us": Supporting Syria’s women refugees

Syrian women await a distribution of aid in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. Women and girls fleeing Syria say they have been directly targeted in the ongoing conflict.

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC

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Q&A: "New Kids" author Brooke Hauser on refugee teens in America

Chit Su in her room. When she arrived in New York from Myanmar, also known as Burma, no one in her new school spoke her language.

Photo: Brooke Hauser
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Jordan refugee crisis: Where to begin?

A Syrian refugee family in the streets of one of Jordan's largest cities. The vast majority of Syrians who've fled to Jordan and Lebanon have become "Urban Refugees," and are scattered throughout the countries' cities.

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC
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The view from Jordan: Helping Syrian refugees

Syrian refugee women peer out from their temporary home in Jordan.

Photo: Reuters/Ali Jarekji, courtesy Trust.org - AlertNet

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