Omar Mohamed, left, and his brother, Hassan. In the graphic memoir he coauthored, When Stars Are Scattered, Mohamed shares what their life was like in the refugee camps in Kenya — and their journey to resettlement in the U.S. Omar Mohamed hide caption
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Halima Aden attends the premiere of Netflix's Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly at Barker Hangar on Aug. 27, 2019, in Santa Monica, Calif. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
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Cedric Habiyaremye and his mother on a quinoa farm in Rwanda. Cedric Habiyaremye hide caption
Syrian gardeners at the Domiz refugee camp in northern Iraq share the harvest. Kastro Yosef/The Lemon Tree Trust hide caption
An aerial view of parts of Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, in northern Kenya in 2012. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
Carmen Bachmann founded "Chance for Science," a website that connects refugee academics with scientists working in Germany. Thomas Victor for NPR hide caption
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People walk past wooden cabins in France's first international-standard refugee camp on March 8, 2016, in Grande-Synthe, France. Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The sun sets on Banksy's 'Dismaland' in Weston-super-Mare England. The art exhibit, billed as a "bemusement park," closed permanently on Sunday, Sept. 27. BEN BIRCHALL/PA Photos /Landov hide caption
Somali children dance in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Fairfax Media/Fairfax Media via Getty Images hide caption