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The Difference Between Immigrant, Refugee, and Asylum Seeker

Migrants, Asylum seekers, Refugees and Immigrants: What’s the Difference?

About the Central American Asylum Seekers

Humanitarian Crisis in Central America

Asylum Seekers Are Not Criminals: What You Need to Know

Why Migrants Flee Central America

Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)

About RAICES

Ways to Support RAICES

Other Advocacy Groups & Nonprofits to Support

Yes We Can 

International Rescue Committee

Annunciation House

Border Angels

Doctors Without Borders

Ways to Help Asylum Seekers

  • Donate to fundraisers that support Central American asylum seekers

  • Start a fundraiser campaign for asylum seekers

  • Call congress representatives 

  • Volunteer for refugee and immigration nonprofits

  • Find more ways to help here: How to Help

Historical Immigrant/Refugee/Asylum-Seeking References Mentioned  

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts

Chinese Immigrants in 1800s

Chinese Immigration

The Malleable Yet Undying Nature of the Yellow Peril

Irish Need Not Apply

1854: No Irish Need Apply

Irish Immigrants in 1800s

The 19th Century Refugee Crisis (Irish Americans)

Irish Immigrant Stereotypes and American Racism

Irish Potato Famine

Who Killa da Chief? 

Who Killa da Chief? 

Italian Immigrants in Late 1800s

A Brief History of America’s Hostility to a Previous Generation of Mediterranean Migrants — Italians

Filipino Immigrants in Early 1900s

Asian Americans: Filipinos

Filipino Anti-Miscegenation Laws

German Immigration in 1800s

German Immigration

Jewish Immigration

History of Jewish Migration to the United States

Dominican Immigration

Dominican Immigrants in the United States

Haitians & the 2010 Earthquake

Granting Refuge: Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in the United States

US Cancels Program for Recent Haitian Immigrants

Syrian Refugees

Syrian Refugees in the United States

More Historical Information About Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

Analyzing Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Political Cartoons

The Lost Boys of Sudan

The Jewish Americans

The Bracero Program

The History of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in America

When German Immigrants Were America’s Undesirables

Photo Credit

Graffitti hearts (on How We Are Them Started & Its Mission page): Photo by Renee Fisher on Unsplash

People holding American flag (on Homepage): Photo by Elias Castillo on Unsplash

Person holding quote painting (on Behind We Are Them page): Photo by Matteo Paganelli on Unsplash

Statue of Liberty (on Causes to Support and Resources pages): Photo by BICAD MEDIA on Unsplash

Three friends (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash

Woman with no lifeguard on duty signage (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Joe Gardner on Unsplash

Older woman selling cloth (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Pablo Rebolledo on Unsplash

Hope, boy looking up at camera (on Featured Stories page): Photo by David Rangel on Unsplash

Woman with glasses looking in distance (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Ayo Ogunseinde on Unsplash

Woman holding flowers (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Remi Yuan on Unsplash

Woman looking at camera (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Els Fattah on Unsplash

Friends sitting on track (on Featured Stories page): Photo by Cortney White on Unsplash