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Amid political turmoil, innovative initiatives such as an Airbnb-style site for refugees and coding classes are providing short to long-term solutions

Congress Refugees are also digital trailblazers; the use of smartphones and social media are essential both for their escape and for everyday life in their new homes. For voluntary refugee aids, digital tools are also of great importance. The Civil Society 4.0 conference aims to network the many initiatives and projects.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei just posed as the dead refugee boy Ayan Kurdi. The photograph is the cynosure of all eyes at the India Art Fair

Given the right resources, refugees waiting for asylum could boost Finland's economy.

German group builds an 'Airbnb for refugees' allowing landlords to offer space in their homes to those fleeing wars.

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.” - G.K. Chesterton. Technologists and free-marketeers are obsessed with removing barriers: Barriers to entry. Frictions. Levee...

A phone can be the difference between life and death.

Governments should stop thinking about refugee camps as temporary places, says Kilian Kleinschmidt, one of the world's leading authorities on humanitarian aid

The refugee fund will focus on helping autonomous and self-managed projects so refugees can retain full control over the decisions made in their lives.

For the first time since the crisis began, women and children make up the majority of refugees undertaking the perilous journey to Greece

Can food be used as a way to bring strangers together, if only for a meal or two, and create the beginnings of a new type of community? Penny Travlou, a cultural geographer and ethnographer at the University of Edinburgh, decided to find out. In an interview posted on “Social Innovation Europe,” an EU website, she talks about her experience in co-organizing “pop-up dinners” that bring together immigrants with local Greeks in Athens. The idea is to use meal preparation and eating together as a way to break down cultural barriers and support migrant integration in Greece. 

Can food be used as a way to bring strangers together, if only for a meal or two, and create the beginnings of a new type of community? Penny Travlou, a cultural geographer and ethnographer at the University of Edinburgh, decided to find out. In an interview posted on “Social Innovation Europe,” an EU website, she talks about her experience in co-organizing “pop-up dinners” that bring together immigrants with local Greeks in Athens. The idea is to use meal preparation and eating together as a way to break down cultural barriers and support migrant integration in Greece. 

With the time passing we learn to expect everything from the "first time left" government of SYRIZA, but we stand shocked in front of the criminalization of solidarity to refugees, a policy which resembles increasingly the policy of its predecessors and the one of its European partners.

The Greek Police and Frontex are to carry out checks on non-governmental organizations and volunteers on islands of the northern Aegean which have been receiving large numbers of migrants, sources have told the Athens-Macedonia News Agency.

What drives a woman to leave her home and country in the dead of night and become a refugee? Corinne Redfern travelled from Greece to Germany with pregnant Aysha and her two young children to find out why she left Syria – and what the future holds for her

Threat of suspension from Schengen zone prompts Athens to publish surprise legislation that opposition says will kill tourism on Aegean islands

I have been covering refugees and migrants for over 25 years. The difference this time was that migrants were arriving in my homeland.