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This is intended to be a live, interactive website. We invite you to take part in the conversation and help build this repository by sharing your own experiences as and with newcomers through artwork, essays, reports, photos, short stories, and poetry about refugee life in San Diego.
Diana Calderon
Growth through Resiliency and Resettlement
Digital Collage
Day of the Dead
Drawing of the beautiful Day of the Dead booth at the Escondido Public Library full of members of the communities contributions!
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Resilience in Bloom
Portraying the strength, hope, and growth of the immigrant experience, inspired by Héctor Tobar's call for dignified and nuanced storytellin
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Bringing Life, Bringing Joy: Celebrating the Vibrancy of Refugee Communities in San Diego
This artwork entitled "Bringing Life, Bringing Joy" is a celebration of the greater refugee community of San Diego and their contributions t
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To More Bubbles Of Hope
A collage that recognizes many events, memories, and efforts of the Vietnamese community in San Diego and hope to inspire many more.
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San Diego's Compassionate Harbor: Embracing Refugees with Open Arms
Highlighting the significance of San Diego, CA for migrants and refugees is my contribution to this artwork.
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Puppeteered Refuge
An art piece that uses visual metaphors to reflect the refugee process and the concept of militarized refuge.
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First American Home
The Tran family’s persevering journey from Vietnam to a new life of opportunities in the U.S.
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Mapping Home: Land/Water/Place
It is crucial to explore refugees' relationships with resettlement in San Diego, the concept of home, and how refugees have redefined the te
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Ball Pit
A muted twist on childlike wonder to pay homage to immigrants and refugees within the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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Urban Connections
Abstract watercolor painting featuring Chicano Park, with the park being depicted in bright colors to represent the heart of the community..
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The Horn of San Diego
This contribution highlights the East African organization UWEAST and its role in my upbringing as a children of immigrant Kenyan parents.
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UCSD and the Refugee Community in San Diego
The separation and unawareness overall UCSD students have with the refugee community in San Diego.
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The Impact of Spreading Refugee Knowledge
This artwork aims to demonstrate the value of the education of refugee life in San Diego and how knowledge is a powerful tool that allows...
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A Beacon of Amal
A tribute to Little Amal's walk across San Diego, and how she brings hope and resilience wherever she goes.
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Platicas & Painting
Platicas & Painting is the title of a project I worked on with my abuelito, a refugee who left everything behind in his small pueblo in...
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Rotary Echo: A Call for Justice
The phone - a call to Justice surrounding the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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Welcome to San Diego - Refugee Life
San Diego as we know it is perceived different to immigrant individuals who have been detained.
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Mixture of Cultures
This piece intends to highlight the diversity in San Diego by showing that there are multiple different refugee communities residing here.
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Vision of Migrants Detained
Depicting the struggles migrants face when seeking asylum and a re-imagination of the changes that would facilitate migrants to seek asylum.
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Ladder, Flower, & World
focusing on refugee personhood by presenting cheeriness, hope, and perseverance through the symbolism of a flower, a family, and ladder.
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Honoring Carlos Escobar MejÃa
A 2-D Altar collage dedicated to Carlos Ernesto Escobar MejÃa, who passed away in ICE custody in 2020 due to inhumane conditions.
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The Children
Explores how we can use the shared fight to bridge the gaps created by borders, the borders that create refugees, from the river to the sea.
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Waiting for Nothing
The artwork attempts to reflect part of refugees' prolonged struggles, depicted in oil and acrylic paints on canvas.
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Journey to a better life
A collage that depicts a migrants journey through 5 simple photographs.
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