Tag: Resettlement
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San Diego Celebrates World Refugee Day, While Refugee Resettlement Numbers At Historic Low
This year’s World Refugee Day coincided with a new report from the International Rescue Committee, a global non-profit dedicated to refugee resettlement.
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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…
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‘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…
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Inside the Asylum Process That Could Bring More Iraqis to San Diego County
Marchers hold up crosses and signs calling for asylum for Iraqi Christians, on the corner of Magnolia Avenue and Main Street in El Cajon, Aug. 19, 2014. | Photo Credit: Susan Murphy, KPBS By Megan Burks San Diego County is home to about 80,000 Iraqis and it could begin to see more. Eight weeks ago,…
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More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script
Refugee children participate in an after-school tutoring program at the Somali Bantu Association of America in City Heights. The Somali Bantu ethnic minority group came to the United States more recently than Somalis who traveled here in the 1990s. Because they’re still gaining their footing on U.S. soil, their children are at high risk of…