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Refugees

Four Key Practices to Support Refugee Families

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

Hala Ayan on Art as Activism

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

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.

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.

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.

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.