In November, a new wave of refugees arrived in Dubie after the Congolese army launched an offensive to try to wipe out Mai Mai militias.

NPR: Military Offensive Displaces Congo Civilians

So, besides haggling for a better aid package, Turkey is pressing America to let it deploy its troops freely in northern Iraq to prevent any Kurdish uprising and to stop a tidal wave of refugees crossing its borders.

ECONOMIST: Caught in the crossfire

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it has picked up more than 500 Haitians attempting to flee their troubled island home by sea and will send most of them back to Haiti, where a spreading rebellion has stoked fears of a new wave of refugees.

CNN: Haitians flee to U.S. in boats

The wave of northbound refugees more than 800, 000 people, mostly poor Shias, are thought to have been displaced has prompted an outpouring of cross-sectarian sympathy and charity.

ECONOMIST: The Arab world

In a new wave of misery, some of the refugees near the border may find themselves being moved, or forced to flee, elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: The great exodus

These two poles of experience roughly speaking, Russian acclimatisation and Germanic colonisation anchor Joseph Horowitz's masterful study of how the Russian revolution, the rise of European fascism and the second world war all transformed the American performing arts by sending an unprecedented wave of immigrants and refugees from Eastern Europe.

ECONOMIST: America's performing arts

And conditions have worsened since the French intervention in Mali prompted a fresh wave of 15, 000 refugees.

BBC: Mali refugees endure 'appalling' Mauritania camp

The next wave of workers were Somali refugees.

NPR: At Iowa Meatpacking Plant, New Workers Complain