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In a brilliant move, Penn Museum hires refugees as guides to exhibits from their homelands

Annie Reneau

February 19, 2020 |

Upworthy |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Penn Museum in Philadelphia not only hires museum docents from the regions being showcased, but they also hire refugees and immigrants. As a result attendance has increased with some people coming expressly for that, and other museums have begun following suit.

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Rome's ‘invisible' immigrants offer an alternative view of the Eternal City

Lidija Pisker

February 12, 2020 |

Equal Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Italy, Rome

Guide Invisibili is an audio storytelling initiative by Laboratorio 53 that increases understanding of Rome’s refugee and immigrant communities. 40 young people, who left their home countries due to conflicts and instability, record their perceptions of the city and point out similarities between life in their home cities and Rome. The free audio tours include moderated discussions with the storytellers and are opportunities to break down barriers, especially with anti-immigrant sentiments and racially motivated attacks increasing. Despite not being well known, 2,500 people have participated.

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Learning Space For Child Migrants Expands In Tijuana

Max Rivlin-Nadler

February 04, 2020 |

KPBS Public Media |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Mexico, Tijuana

"The Nest" in Tijuana is a space for migrant children to relax and be themselves during a very stressful time. "The Nest" was established by the Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles and sits across the street from a shelter where many of their students live. Parents and other migrants also benefit from the space which they describe as stress-relieving.

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The secret gardens of Rohingya refugees

Guillaume Pajot

January 28, 2020 |

Equal Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar

The Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, the largest refugee camp in the world, is overcrowded and increasingly isolated. A program by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bangladeshi NGO BRAC offers refugees equipment, advice, fertilizer, and seeds to make their own garden. These gardens have become hugely popular, taking up what little space there is between tents, but also offer refugees a source of peace and a food source to supplement their meals. Compost for these gardens are prepared outside of the camp by Bangladeshi women, which helps improve the relationship between the two groups.

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The Nazis and the Trawniki Men

Debbie Cenziper

January 23, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States

For 28 years, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, stripped more than 100 people of U.S. citizenship and deported them for their direct participation in Nazi war crimes. The most successful Nazi-hunting operation in the world, OSI’s painstaking investigations – historical research combined with criminal sleuthing and international diplomacy – pried needed records from other nations’ files in order to prove that post-war refugees who ended up in America had immigrated under false pretenses, hiding their true role in the Holocaust’s extermination camps.

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Providing a home for Europe's unaccompanied migrant children

María José Carmona

January 15, 2020 |

Equal Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Spain, Malaga

There are thousands of children caught in the midst of the migrant crisis, and many of them end up without their parents or with a relative. To avoid placing migrant children in facilities that would be unable to give them specialized care, people are stepping up to serve as foster parents for the time being. The foster parents support the children's emotional well being and sense of self, and now foster aunts—forming a relationship without taking over care—are also emerging. These initiatives help ease the process of starting over in a new place, especially for children.

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Asylum-seekers find compassion, resources at "House of Peace" once released from Aurora immigration center

Moe Clark

December 12, 2019 |

The Colorado Sun |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

When asylum seekers are released from the Aurora, Colorado immigration center, many seek help and community from the nonprofit organization, Casa de Paz. Based in Denver, the nonprofit offers these individuals and any visiting family members a place to stay and helps connect them with community resources.

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A new 'Sesame Street' show in Arabic aims to help refugee children

Alaa Elassar

November 20, 2019 |

CNN |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Syria

Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee created a special show for displaced Syrian children conducted entirely in Arabic. The show teaches children lessons like counting and the alphabet, but it also teaches them emotional coping skills, which is very important for refugee children. The show is accompanied by trained early childhood development facilitators who visit homes and interact with the children playing games or reading books.

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In Ecuador, one woman has given shelter to over 8,500 Venezuelans

Kimberley Brown

September 30, 2019 |

Al Jazeera |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ecuador, Juncal

Carmen Carcelen lives in northern Ecuador with her husband, eight children, and hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who are fleeing poverty, violence, and hyperinflation at home. Carcelen has been providing food and shelter (and even foot rubs) to over 8,500 migrants for two years now. Carcelen says that she is spurred to action by her Christian faith, but welcomes any donations because it is currently financed on her husband's small income.

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Do Deportations Lower Crime? Not According to the Data

Anna Flagg

September 23, 2019 |

The Marshall Project |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

A federal deportation program called Secure Communities has been around off and on since 2008, and is a collaboration between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While responding to a perceived connection between illegal immigration and crime, the heavy-handed approach to deportation hasn’t actually had any effect on crime rates, recent studies have shown. The research has also fact-checked another myth about the program – that it helps police solve crimes better – which hasn’t proven to have any distinct correlation.

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