When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.
I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.
I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.
