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Texas avoided any direct damage from Hurricane Katrina, but the state took in an estimated 220,000 people who sought refuge from Louisiana. On August 31, the Harris County, Texas Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the State of Louisiana came to an agreement to allow at least 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans, especially those who were sheltered in the Louisiana ...
The list below includes data for refugee crises with at least 1 million refugees, not including internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events. Rows highlighted in blue indicate ongoing events.
The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (80th Cong., 2d Sess. Ch 647, PL 774) authorized, for a limited period of time, the admission into the United States of 200,000 certain European displaced persons (DPs) for permanent residence.
Peace on Earth seems more elusive than ever this holiday season. Let's make Iowa a haven of welcome for refugees fleeing war, violence and persecution.
The tally of 1.04 million displaced people released by the International Organization for Migration represents a threefold increase from December 2023 when 315,000 people were homeless.
The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 finally allowed the displaced people of World War II to start immigrating. [77] Some 200,000 Europeans and 17,000 orphans displaced by World War II were initially allowed to immigrate to the United States outside the immigration quotas.
The United Nations Refugee Agency on Monday announced that for the first time more than 100 million people across the world have been displaced from their homes. The number of refugees, who are ...
As a result of the damage inflicted by Katrina, over one million people were internally displaced. One month after the disaster, over 600,000 remained displaced. Immediately following the disaster, New Orleans lost approximately half of its population, with many residents displaced to cities such as Houston, Dallas, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta.