Tag: Refugees

  • The AjA Project to Confront Migrant Debate With Airport Mural

    The AjA Project interviews and photographs a refugee woman living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego in this undated photo. | Photo Courtesy of The AjA Project By Megan Burks With the fatal terrorist attack in San Bernardino Wednesday and the massacre in Paris earlier this month, Americans are taking a hard look…

  • East African Girl Scouts Learn Heritage, Female Leadership

    Girl Scouts have gotten a lot more diverse since the first troop formed in 1912 Georgia — especially in San Diego. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks It’s a Monday evening in City Heights and Girl Scout Troop 4307 is gathering. But instead of green and brown uniforms,…

  • A Look at How San Diego Resettles Refugees as Syrian Crisis Continues

    By Patty Lane, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico As European Union ministers hold emergency talks Monday on the migration crisis, the search for a new home remains a big question for millions of Syrians who are fleeing from their war-torn country. President Barack Obama announced Thursday the United States will accept at least 10,000 Syrian…

  • Syrians Could Soon Be Next Refugee Group to Call San Diego Home

    A line of Syrian refugee women, some carrying children, cross into Jordan from southern Syria. The outflow this year has been staggering. | Photo Credit: UN Refugee Agency By Megan Burks The U.S. State Department announced this week it will take in up to 8,000 Syrian refugees next year, and many of them could settle…

  • ‘Maletas Migrantes’ Exhibit Explores the Immigrant Experience

    Andurriales del corazón (The Detours of the Heart), 2012 by Bana Fernández Rolfi from “Maletas Migrantes,” an art exhibit on display at the New Americans Museum in Liberty Station from July 23 through Oct. 2, 2015. By Megan Burke and Maureen Cavanaugh On the surface, a simple suitcase may not seem to have much artistic…