resettlement

One year ago this month, U.S. forces left Afghanistan after 20 years of war. Some 94,000 Afghan nationals, American citizens and lawful permanent residents have arrived in the U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Today, we hear some of their stories. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times diaspora reporter Sarah Parvini and photojournalist Marcus Yam

More reading:

They escaped Afghanistan for California and beyond. But war’s struggles followed them

The things they carried when they fled Afghanistan

The cadence of war and its human toll: A photojournalist’s perspective

A Times journalist’s diary inside the fall of Afghanistan

As the 20th of June is World Refugee Day, we had Dr. Marieke Jasperse,  Senior Advisor Trafficking in Persons, Immigration New Zealand and Kodrean Eashae,  Host of Voice of Aroha, Wellington Access Radio come on. Our guests gave us an insight into the lived experiences of refugees in Aotearoa New Zealand and around the world, the misconceptions which are prevalent in discussions around migrant resettlement and things which the New Zealand government is doing right and where all there is need for a lot of improvement.

To learn more about World Refugee Day:
https://www.unhcr.org/world-refugee-day.html

Marieke's Research: The crisis of representation in the refugee resettlement sector in New Zealand

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Kodrean Eashae: kodrean.eashae@vuw.ac.nz

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One of the key ways that the local church engaged with Afghan families resettled into our community is through providing short-term housing. Several host families opened up their homes to become not only a place to stay but a people of love and welcome to these Afghan refugees. This week we have the honor of hearing from one of those families.

Micah & Karna Driscoll were deeply moved by the images of evacuees fleeing Afghanistan and coming to the US. They knew that they wanted to help in some way. When our church began working with the resettlement process, they quickly volunteered their family to host and care for one of these individuals. They share their story of getting to know Salim as they came alongside him in his transition to the US.

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We continue our series today on the stories surrounding the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan refugees following the US withdraw from Afghanistan last summer. Today we're honored to share the mic with Aziz Sadat, one of those individuals who fled his country in the wake of the Taliban takeover. We'll hear his firsthand account of him and his family leaving Afghanistan, relocating to the US and being settled in our community of Northwest Indiana.

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Today we begin a new series that explores the stories surrounding the recent resettlement of Afghan refugees into our community of Northwest Indiana. Following the withdraw of US forms from Afghanistan last summer, hundreds of thousands of individuals and families fled the country fearing reprisals by the resurgent Taliban. At that time, the US government committed to helping these refugees escape the violence and resettle here in the United States. In partnership with NGOs, local communities and churches, these families were integrated into areas around the country.

In this episode we're speaking with the leader of one of those local organizations, Tony Burrell. He is the founder and Executive Director of The Welcome Network, an evangelical non-profit organization in Northwest Indiana that assists in the resettlement of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. He'll give us some background into the crisis and how our local community responded to this challenge.

For more information about Tony's organization, The Welcome Network, visit their website at www.thewelcomenet.org.

Also check out this amazing video from The Welcome Network that describes some of their ministry: "Come To The Table" video.

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On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Dan Hanniher of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and Erol Kekic of Church World Service. This show discusses the ever pressing issues of refugees.

Erol Kekic is a senior vice president at Church World Service (CWS), where he leads the Immigration and Refugee Program. CWS is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies in the United States, and it also operates the Resettlement Support Center Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) is the largest faith-based nonprofit dedicated to serving vulnerable immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the U.S. For more than 80 years, LIRS has been a champion for migrants and refugees from around the globe.


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The Burma Refugee Family Network recommended finding local aid groups through regional Refugee, Asylee and Immigrant Forums. These forums coordinate refugee nonprofit organizations in San Francisco, Santa Clara County, and the East Bay.

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Refugee farmers who grew up cultivating crops in Somalia have returned to the land, albeit in the United States, decades after fleeing their country’s civil war.

They’ve been resettled in the US state of Maine after living for years in UN-supported refugee camps in Kenya.

They are among thousands of Somalis who fled persecution and conflict in the Horn of Africa country who benefitted from resettlement programmes in third countries like the US.

For this latest Lid is On podcast from UN News, Daniel Dickinson reports from Maine.

On this episode of the podcast, we’re talking about Far Away and Downeast: Recipes from the Maine Refugee Community published in the mid-80s by the Refugee Resettlement Program of Diocesan Human Relations Services in Portland. The cookbook represents a wide range of refugee communities in Maine including Afghan, Cambodian, Cuban, Iranian, Laotian, Polish, and Vietnamese. We’re going to talk with Selby Frame, who was one of the editors and compilers  of the cookbook, and for today’s recipe segment, Margaret made Sangkya, Cambodian steamed custard in a squash!

On the episode we also talk about how challenging it can be to source ingredients as recipes and foods from different cultures make their way into local eating habits, and how this community cookbook, not only introduced new foods to the Portland community, but also trained host families in the food customs of their new guests. The other recipes we cooked for this episode were Cambodian Spiced Spareribs, Cambodian Chicken Barbecue, and Chek Chien, a Cambodian fried banana dish.

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This episode is sponsored by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink

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Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. That was in 1991. Three decades later, the family still hasn’t been allowed to build a permanent home together anywhere. Their story, like a novel you couldn’t make up, is that of the broken refugee resettlement system and of responsibilities no one wants to take. American journalist Ty McCormick tells it. 

Join us for our third episode of Redefining Refugee, a podcast by Gators for Refugee Medical Relief at the University of Florida. 

In this episode, we speak with Sarah Maley, a woman from Burma who supports refugees from Burma and other locations as they resettle in the United States. Listen to her share her story, explain her work, and discuss issues refugees face in resettlement. 

Join us to increase your knowledge about the refugee crisis and hear Sarah's experiences. Thank you for listening!

Join us for our second episode of Redefining Refugee, a podcast by Gators for Refugee Medical Relief at the University of Florida. 

This episode, we speak with Basma Alawee, an engineer from Iraq who became a refugee and resettled in the United States in 2010. Since then, she has become an activist and advocate for refugees, a writer, and an educator. We discuss her life before she became a refugee, how she became a refugee, what the process of resettlement was like for her, the legal issues refugees face, and the humanitarian work Basma does. 

Join us to increase your knowledge about the refugee crisis and hear Basma's story. Thank you for listening!

Welcome to Redefining Refugee, a podcast by Gators for Refugee Medical Relief at the University of Florida. 

In our first episode, we speak with the founder of GRMR and GRMR's current president about how GRMR began, basics of the global refugee crisis, issues faced by refugees during resettlement, misconceptions about refugees, and more. 

Join us to increase your knowledge about the refugee crisis and learn why we do what we do. Thank you for listening!

Note: to clarify on the discussion about education, some refugee camps do have education for children. According to the UNHCR, 4 of the ~7 million school-aged children are unable to attend school. To learn more about education of refugee children, check out this link: 
https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/education.html#:~:text=Of%20the%2019.9%20million%20refugees,million%20unable%20to%20attend%20school.&text=UNHCR%20partners%20with%20governments%20and,children%20and%20young%20people%20everywhere. 

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Guests:

Stephanie Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Anne C. Richard served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration in the Obama Administration (2012-2017). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.

International Security Article:

This podcast is based on Stephanie Schwartz, “Home, Again: Refugee Return and Post-Conflict Violence in Burundi,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Fall 2019), pp. 110-145.
 

Additional Related Reading:

Stephanie Schwartz, “Sending Refugees Back Makes the World More Dangerous,” Foreign Policy, November 27, 2019.

Anne C. Richard, “US Diplomacy on Refugees and Migrants: Inside Recent History,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 20 (Fall 2019), pp. 42-50.

Megan Bradley, “Rethinking Return: Defining Success in Refugee Repatriation,” World Politics Review, December 3, 2013.

Kevin Sieff, “‘What Other Choice Do I have?’: How Debt-Ridden Refugees Are Being Forced to Return to a War Zone,” Washington Post, December 15, 2017.

Kathleen Newland and Brian Salant, “Increased Focus on Forced Return of Migrants and Asylum Seekers Puts Many in Peril,” Migration Policy Institute, December 12, 2017.

“Tanzania: Burundians Pressured into Leaving,” Human Rights Watch, December 12, 2019.

Louisa Loveluck, “Assad Urged Syrian Refugees to Come Home. Many Are Being Welcomed with Arrest and Interrogation,” Washington Post, June 2, 2019.

Her research centres around how leisure, particularly being in nature, can help with resettlement for new immigrants. Jane shares her own immigration story that took her from the UK to South Africa to Canada, why she decided to pursue her PhD and how we are redefining what it means to be retired.

We talk about...

• Leaving apartheid South Africa to raise a family and build a life in Canada
• Jane’s storied career in TV, feature films and then communications strategy
• Returning to university at the age of 60 to get a master’s degree at Royal Roads which led to doing some coursework at the University of Alberta.
• How unanswered questions from a master’s class in global politics and the massive migrations starting to take place in 2012 turned into the desire to do a PhD
• Researching leisure and its role in resettlement
• The process and demands of doing a PhD
• Finding the right supervisor
• Challenges with ageism in the educational system
• The amazing richness of resources in post-secondary libraries

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Beth Bruno and Rebecca Deng discuss the transition from East Africa to West Michigan in 2000 when 3700 South Sudanese youth were resettled in America, among them 89 girls. Rebecca turned the trauma of her childhood into empathy and became an international speaker, activist, and soon to be author. But mostly, they talk about the ways youth are similar all over the world and the simple ways to build empathy and broaden a global perspective.

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