On February 24, 2026, Ukraine enters its fifth year of war after a full-scale Russian invasion of the country began in 2022. As war rages on, civilian casualties and mass displacement continue to impact people both in and from Ukraine. USCRI’s situation update will cover the mass displacement crisis, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, and […]
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Policy and Advocacy Newsletter: VOLUME 9 | ISSUE NO.6 February 20, 2026
Featured Brief Double displacement occurs when people who have already been uprooted once are forced to flee again. As extreme heat, rising sea levels, and intensifying storms reshape the planet, millions will find themselves displaced multiple times over. Refugees are among the most vulnerable to climate shocks. By 2050, the United Nations predicts that many […]
Refugees Twice Over: Climate Migration and ‘Double Displacement’
By: Alexia Gardner, USCRI Policy Analyst, and Anum Merchant, USCRI Policy Intern Extreme weather continues to drive new large-scale displacement, with 2024 ranked among the highest years recorded. From typhoons to droughts, climate-related disasters threaten people’s ability to sustain themselves in their homeland, forcing them to seek safety elsewhere. Marginalized communities, despite contributing little to the burning of fossil fuels, will disproportionately face the devastating effects […]
SITUATION UPDATE: MYANMAR (BURMA) FEBRUARY 2026
photo by Aung Khant Si Thu Five Years After the Coup: Why are Displacement and Suffering on the Rise in Myanmar? Myanmar is facing one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world. Five years since the junta seized power from democratically elected members of the country’s previous ruling party, the situation continues […]
A Conversation with the Dalai Lama – From the Archives
By Will Evans, Policy Analyst In 1959, twenty-three-year-old Tenzin Gyatso and a small Tibetan entourage fled Lhasa and trekked for weeks across the Himalayas before reaching safety. The Prime Minister of India at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru, insisted on providing asylum to the group, citing moral and humanitarian grounds. Tenzin Gyatso is now better known as His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For 66 years, he has lived in exile, unable to return […]
Family Separation as Policy: The Human Cost for Children
A child who is separated from their parent or caregiver does not experience a policy decision; rather, they experience fear, confusion, and a complete collapse of the world they trust. Globally, family separation—particularly the forced or involuntary separation of parents and children—is a profound human rupture. It is measured in the enduring trauma of sudden […]
Policy and Advocacy Newsletter: VOLUME 9 | ISSUE NO.5 January 30, 2026
Our Policy and Advocacy Newsletter introduces our latest project: From the Archives. For more than a century, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has advocated for the rights and dignity of refugees. For our 115th anniversary, we are revisiting our archives to pair earlier works with contemporary reflections on how the lessons of history resonate today. Looking […]
Updates from the Front Lines: Serving Immigrant Trafficking Survivors in 2026 – Live Recording
To commemorate National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, USCRI, along with the University of South Carolina, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, Asylee Women Enterprise, and Ayuda, held an event on January 21 to discuss the state of service programming for immigrant survivors of human trafficking in 2026. A recently released preliminary report presents findings on how the […]
Introducing “From the Archives”
For more than a century, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has advocated for the rights and dignity of refugees, reporting regularly on harms committed against people on the move. For our 115th anniversary, we are turning to our archives, republishing historical material and pairing them with present-day reflections on how the lessons of the past still resonate today. Our archives reveal that the past […]
Holocaust Remembrance Day – Remember Today’s Refugees
By Alexia Gardner, Policy Analyst, and Anum Merchant, Policy Intern In May of 1939, a boat of German Jews aboard the St. Louis pleaded for asylum in the United States. They were denied entry and returned to Europe. 254 of the passengers were later killed in the Holocaust. Rosa Seligmann was murdered at Auschwitz. Martha Scheyer was killed at Sobibor. […]
