We knew nothing about the Delta when we decided to buy a remote farmhouse there, thirty miles from the nearest supermarket.

The camp housed more than 3,000 people from all over the world: the Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Pakistan, and elsewhere.

Is there a way to make a new home, no matter where you are? What do you bring with you, what do you hold onto, what do you make new?

Even under the most trying circumstances, many Syrian refugees have asserted life and creativity over defeat.

But as we grow older and our identity struggles take on a sharper edge we can lie awake at nights wondering why we made the journey, what we gained, and how much we have lost.

When you’re trying to make friends and searching for conversation topics, the things you miss from home come up often, especially if you’re from the same country.

And that’s where this community is today. They are settling, becoming a part of the American South, pioneers making their own history to mingle with the greater Southern story.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of people forcibly displaced worldwide reached 59.5 million at the end of 2014—numbers not seen since World War...

Many here have learned to dance with death. I walk in.

I am in the same room with three young asylum seekers from Syria—Abed, 17, from Deir al-Zour; Mohamad, 16, from Marj al-Sultan; and Odai, 17, a Palestinian who was born and raised in...

Perhaps most puzzling of all is why one crisis appears to receive more attention than another. If crisis really means something, how is it that all crises are not equal.

She remembers a steady stream of leavers from the time she was a girl growing up on a sharecropping plantation with her parents and six siblings in the 1930s and ’40s in rural...