Refugee Videos

Commander Le was rescued by a Navy ship after fleeing Vietnam at the age of 5.

Last December, videojournalist Jennifer Utz and Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee, joined us at GRITtv to talk about Mohamed's journey from Iraq to the U.S. This week, our Got Docs feature is Jennifer's documentary in production, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, telling Mohamed's story, from his exile from Iraq after Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the killing of homosexuals "in the worst, most severe way possible." Mohamed, who is gay, wound up in Syria, where Jennifer met him and took up his cause. Mohamed's story may have ended happily, but over a million Iraqis are still displaced. More of their stories are available here.

Poland. Dembak refugee camp, the refugees were sleeping in the corridors.

Mohamed Salem Bouamoud tells about his imprisonment in Morocco at the office of AFAPREDESA in a Saharawi refugeecamp. He explains why he is prepared to go back to Morocco and his friend Omar joins the discussion about methods of Saharawi resistance in the occupied zone.

Fotograf as de un viaje a los campamentos de refugiados saharauis de Tindouf, al sur de Argelia, en febrero de 2009. "Sahara, an exile nation in the hell". A journalistic trip to saharawi refugee camps in Southern Algeria in 2009. About the Western Sahara unresolved conflict.

"The Palestinian Refugee Question Six Decades After the Nakba" Public speech in the House of Democracy and Human Rights, invited by the AK Nahost Berlin

http://www.scmp.com/video/ When we think about illegal immigrants or IIs, we normally picture mainlanders sneaking into Hong Kong. However, one man thinks that recently there has been an increase in South Asian "system abusers" (as he calls them) who are heading in the opposite direction. This Kowloon-based immigration consultant, who has requested his identity to remain anonymous, thinks he has located an "unofficial border crossing" on the banks of Deep Bay, north of Tin Shui Wai and south of Shenzhen. From Lau Fau Shan, a busy fish market, mainland China is visible through the haze and it is here that he suspects many people cross here illegally - under the noses of the nearby police station and the Immigration Department. The passengers, he claims, are asylum seekers or those who have refugee status and therefore cannot leave or enter Hong Kong through official channels. In this video, we try to witness these vessels departing Lau Fau Shan.

An original reality web series by Right Here in My Pocket. A film by Duc Nguyen with music by Mark Izu and Shoko Hikage.