Migrants, Displaced People and Refugees
War, economic crisis and climate change can trigger mass migrations of people. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Migrants, Displaced People and Refugees” feature reporting that covers refugees, migrants and internally displaced people. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on migrants, displaced people and refugees.
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Thousands of lone minors fled war to find shelter in Sweden, a once exceptionally welcoming country...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
Nigeria's Stolen Generation Sarah Topol and Glenna Gordon Boko Haram is famous for the 2014 mass...
June 27, 2017 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Cassandra Vinograd – South Sudan
Pulitzer Center grantee Cassandra Vinograd traveled to South Sudan to put a human face on the...
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Lesson Plans
Child Soldiers: Surviving Boko Haram
This lesson introduces students to the individual experiences of child soldiers as well as larger issues like the impact of war on children through reporting on Boko Haram.
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Project
The Stolen Generation
“You people will know your mistakes,” one boy was told. “You have come to where you will enjoy your...
![I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-21-17/beichuan_tourists.jpg.webp?h=5d8d1d0b&itok=2QlN3bFD "I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic development tool in the region. Despite the grand plans, however, most tourists visit the ruins as a day trip and stay in larger cities farther away or continue on into the mountains to visit Laojunshan National Park (aka "China's Yellowstone"). Image by Daniel Brook. China, 2015.")
![From "The Stolen Children" Pulitzer Center project. Image by Glenna Gordon. Nigeria, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-20-17/ggordon_bokoharam_03.jpg.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=MHl3JDsh "From "The Stolen Children" Pulitzer Center project. Image by Glenna Gordon. Nigeria, 2017.")
