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  • America Beyond Detention: Taking Shelter

    January 30, 2017 |

    Texas Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    Three Part Series, "America Beyond Detention": For decades, immigrant advocates have argued that the federal government should increase the use of residential shelters - like Casa Marianella in Austin - as an alternative to detention. The shelters are generally less expensive, treat immigrants more humanely, and are better equipped to integrate people into their new communities.

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  • Employment Remains Elusive for Resettled Refugees

    January 03, 2017 |

    Diplomatic Courier |

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    Response Location: Jordan

    Refugees encounter multiple complex barriers when they try to find employment in a new country. At the Zataari Refugee Camp, refugees have built the Champs Elysees marketplace exhibiting entrepreneurship and resiliency to make the best out of their situation at the camp, even though they left home knowing it would be a struggle to find work.

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  • Years with no nation, 90 days to become a Minnesotan

    December 31, 2016 |

    Minneapolis Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Thousands of refugees are navigating hurdles of integration in the United States. Organizations like the Minnesota Council of Churches provide comprehensive support in a number of areas - from housing to job applications to health insurance paperwork - but all with the end goal of helping the relocated families towards independence and sustainability in their new life.

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  • Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees

    November 20, 2016 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beqaa Valley

    In a creative twist, Syrian refugees are being given cash cards to spend as they wish rather than being given food boxes or in-kind donations. Agencies and refugees themselves say that it gives them dignity and choice, which are important in the survival process. It was also much more efficient and cheaper to distribute money than buying food. This podcast cites a study done to prove its efficacy, talks to a couple refugee families, and notes that results could vary from country to country.

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  • Cash and Tech Replace Bags of Rice in Urban Humanitarian Aid

    November 04, 2016 |

    Diplomatic Courier |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    Refugees often find cold cash far more helpful than bags of rice or other products foundations provide. Iris scanners can make identity verification much easier for refugees to access money that is distributed to them at banks.

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  • A helping hand for migrant students

    October 09, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Center, Colorado

    The Migrant Education Program, which offers educational and social services to migrant worker families in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, is growing in popularity among the valley’s migrant worker population, and has recently begun to focus on getting migrant students geared up for college .

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  • For Refugees in Lebanon, Cash Instead of Camps.

    September 13, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Lebanon

    In Lebanon, services for refugees are often misguided and ineffective. To address this issue, the country created a cash-debit card allowance for refugees, providing a more appropriate resource than the typical aid program.

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  • The surprisingly simple economic case for giving refugees cash, not stuff

    August 07, 2016 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    In the Middle East, refugee camps are expensive to run-- particularly because shipping food aid is expensive, and the refugees feel victimized in an environment where they have no agency or purchasing power. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has moved refugees in Jordan out of camps and has given cash instead of in-kind aid, and new possibilities emerge with mobile money by the aid of new technology. The results have shown that refugees feel more empowered and the costs associated with their aid are reduced.

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  • Ogaden, Wicihitowin working with other grassroots groups on economic development, public safety

    July 10, 2016 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Edmonton, Alberta

    Racism, poverty, gang violence and drugs — to tackle these issues among others the Indigenous and Somali communities are teaming up. Their goal? To make downtown Edmonton safer.

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  • Refugees Encounter a Foreign Word: Welcome

    June 30, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    Fueled by xenophobia, many countries around the world are refusing refugees at the border. But Canadian hockey moms, poker buddies, and neighbors are personally resettling Syrians, one family at a time.

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