Strangers in a neighboring land
Refugees from Myanmar struggle to find their place in Thailand
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(Image credit: (Peter Biro) Photographer Peter Biro of the International Rescue Committee spent two years documenting the stateless, as they tried to make new lives for themselves in what should have b)
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(Image credit: (Peter Biro)Despite how little these displaced people have, Biro found a palpable amount of compassion and hope."I am often invited into people's homes, and offered food and drink,")
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(Image credit: (Peter Biro)"Most young people I meet talk about wanting to change their situation, and preferably resettle in a third country — the United States, somewhere in Europe, or Australia — and stu)
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