ABSTRACT
Since 2013, millions of refugees and migrants have ed wars and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, many trying to get to one of the small islands off the coasts of Greece and Italy. To escape drought, hunger, and violent conict, hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese have ed to Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. By October of 2017, more than 800,000 Rohingya people had ed persecution in Myanmar, ending up in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis themselves have been displaced by typhoons.2 In still another dramatic situation, roughly 1,500 displaced people have lived for four years in isolated conditions on two small islands in Papua New Guinea, waiting to be placed somewhere safe in the world.
