Refugees

Four Key Practices to Support Refugee Families

To help families cope with trauma and loss, community leaders are using the two-generation approach.

June 28, 2022

Building Trust with Immigrant and Refugee Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices

Explore how organizations can build and sustain trusting relationships to best serve immigrant and refugee communities.

April 22, 2022

Growing Language Skills with Immigrant and Refugee Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices

An in-depth look at how we can use #2GenImm approaches to help immigrant and refugee families overcome the language barrier.

April 22, 2022

Cultural Competency Secrets to Success with Immigrant and Refugee Families: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices

What are the cultural competency secrets to success that service providers can utilize to support immigrant and refugee families?

April 22, 2022

Better Responses to Differing Immigration Statuses: Spreading and Adapting 2Gen Working Practices

How can service organizations create a supportive environment for immigrant and refugee communities to feel safe enough to seek help around immigration statuses?

April 22, 2022

Hala Ayan on Art as Activism

Her new novel The Arsonists’ City is nominated for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

February 24, 2022

Omar El Akkad Thinks of Fiction Writing as a Superpower

His novel What Strange Paradise is a nominee for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

February 16, 2022

Susan Abulhawa Writes to Affirm Palestinian Existence

Her book Against the Loveless World follows Nahr, a Palestinian refugee who tells her story from a solitary-confinement cell in Israel.

February 16, 2021

Building Political Will in the Americas: An Opportunity for Global Leadership on Forced Displacement

As a new administration takes over in Washington, there are clear opportunities for leadership to recalibrate refugee and migration policies while countering the root causes of forced displacement at home and abroad.

January 21, 2021

What does COVID-19 look like in a refugee community?

Asma Abou Ezzeddine Rasamn, Founder of Malaak and Class 6 MELI Fellow dedicates her work providing safe settlements for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Even before Covid-19 and Lebanon’s current revolution unfolding, these refugees have been living through a pandemic of their own for the past 8 years.

June 24, 2020