Refugee Maps Mapping displacement, one route at a time.

Refugee Maps

Mapping displacement, one route at a time.

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Mapping Without Taking: Five Questions Before You Draw Another Displacement Route
Ethics & Practice

Mapping Without Taking: Five Questions Before You Draw Another Displacement Route

Humanitarian mapping borrows the language of precision and the habits of extraction. Before publishing another route, another shelter layer, another crisis dashboard, mappers owe their subjects a short set of uncomfortable questions about consent, ownership, harm, benefit, and representation.
The Second Journey: America's Refugee Map Does Not End at the Airport
Data & Analysis

The Second Journey: America's Refugee Map Does Not End at the Airport

Resettlement coverage usually draws a single line from an airport to a first apartment and stops there. But a growing share of refugee families move again within a year or two, reshaping demand for housing, schools, and health services in cities that never appeared on an official placement roster. This is an attempt to map that second journey.