NYT: Number of Academic Refugees Grows

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/world/middleeast/number-of-academic-refugees-grows.html?_r=1

Intellectual dissidents have long faced political persecution and violence. But in recent years, the dangers facing them and universities in troubled regions have reached a crisis point. According to the Institute of International Education, which has been helping imperiled scholars since 1919, academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II, when thousands of professors and scientists escaped Nazi-controlled Europe.