Number Organization

Name
1
Exile Voices
https://maptia.com/r
eza/stories/exilevoices

Description of
Organization
Photography workshops
for children in Kawergosh
Refugee camp in Iraq so
they can tell their stories
through photos

Type of
Displacement
Armed conflict

Migration
Flight
From Syria
to Iraq

Mural arts for Syrian

refugee children living
Zaatari Refugee Camp

Armed
Conflict

From Syria
to Jordan

Established community
center in Amman, Jordan
that offers a variety of
services to Iraqi, Syrian
and Palestinian Refugees
including arts workshops
for children
Jewelry classes for Somali
women in Dadaab Refugee
Camp, Kenya

Armed conflict

Iraq, Syria,
and Palestine
to Jordan

Armed
Conflict

From
Somalia to
Kenya

Zaatari Project
2014
https://joelartista.co
m/2014/06/25/refug
ee-camp-art-thezaatari-project/
Collateral Repair
Project
http://www.children
sworldart.com/ - !
past-projects/c21kz
Kony Ber Group

History of Displacement

March 2011 pro-democracy

protests erupt after the torture
of innocent teenagers;
government responds
violently
July 2011 number of
protesters increase,
demanding President Assads
resignation; opposition forces
take up arms
2012 civil war
August 2015 more than
250,000 killed; many flee to
neighboring countries
See above

See above

1991 collapse of Siad

Barres government
1990-1992 factional
fighting amongst opposition
groups
1995- UN withdraws troops,

Adventist
Development and
Relief Agency

Vocational training
program that teaches
refugees how to make
soaps, dresses and
cardboard sculptures in
Bahn Refugee Camp,
Liberia

Armed conflict

From Ivory
Coast to
Liberia

International
Organization for
Migration (IOM)
Festival of Migrant
Rights

Travelling festival that uses

art, poetry, and theater to
promote migrant rights in
El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, and Mexico

Organized
crime, influx
of gang
violence

From Central
America to
the United
States

FilmAid
International
Thailand
http://www.filmaid.
org/thailand/

Works with refugees in

Thailand to create
educational films that
disseminate important
information about health
and hygiene

Armed conflict

From
Myanmar to
Thailand

Clowns without
Borders
http://www.clowns
withoutborders.org/

Uses juggling, music and

improvised comedy to
provide comic relief for
Haitian refugees fleeing

Political policy
changes for
Haitian
immigrants in

From
Dominican
Republic to
Haiti

Somalia deemed a failed state

ongoing conflict
2010 contested election
between Gbagbo and
Outtara; Outtara launches
military offensive to
overthrow Gbagbo
2011 Gbagbo is captured
by pro-Outtara forces which
brings conflict to a close
2014 tens of thousands of
women and children cross the
US-Mexico border to seek
asylum in the United States;
migration due to increased
violence in home countries as
well as political instability
and corruption
1948 Burma gains
independence from England
1949 Karen people fight for
independence from Burmese
government
1960 military coup
establishes authoritarian
regime that tries to defeat
ethnic rebel forces
1984 massive offensive
drives ethnic opposition
groups across the border to
Thailand
December 2015 Dominican
Republic passes new
immigration laws and expels
undocumented workers;

projects/haiti-2016/

Dominican Republic

Dominican
Republic

A.R.T. (Arts for

Refugees in
Transition)
http://www.artforref
ugees.org/projects.h
tml

Uses art and ceramics to

work with Internally
Displaced Refugees in
Colombia

Armed conflict

From
northern
regions of
Colombia to
Bogota

10

The Refugee Art

Project
http://therefugeeartp
roject.com/home/fa
qs/

Offers visual arts

workshops to refugees in
detention centers in
Australia; these workshops
help battle the mental and
physical toll that refugees
face in detention centers

Armed conflict
and economic
reasons

Sri Lanka to
Australia

nearly 3,000 people live in

makeshift camps along the
Haiti/DR border
1980- Colombian
government forms
paramilitary to control rebel
forces in the north
2010 estimated that
300,000 new people are
displaced every year because
of conflict
2012 peace negotiations
begin, but displacement
persists
1983 Tamil Tigers organize
insurgency to overthrow
government
2009 after 26 years,
government finally defeats
the Tamil Tigers; estimated
that 100,000 people died
during this time
2012 record year for Sri
Lankans travelling to
Australia