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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
"Seeking Asylum" and San Diego
Connections from the documentary "Seeking Asylum: A Mother’s Journey" to the challenges refugees are confronted with in San Diego
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Hmong People in San Diego
This project is about the Hmong People's lives in the United States and San Diego
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Voices from the Margins: My Journey to Jacumba Detention Camp
This paper documented my experience in Jacumba Dentention camp.
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The Universal Language
A visual representation of the most culturally significant sport on the planet
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A People’s Guide to San Diego: Supporting Refugee-Owned Restaurants
A collection of refugee owned and operated restaurants created for people searching for authentic cuisine.
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Refugee Spaces: Gentrification and City Heights
This zine discusses gentrification that is moving into City Heights and beginning to displace refugees, refugee spaces and others.
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The Activist East African Taxi Drivers of San Diego
Contextualizes the predominance of East Africans as taxi drivers in San Diego, the organizing work of the United Taxi Workers of San Diego.
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LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers
A short overview of some issues faced by the LGBTQ+ community of asylum seekers and refugees.
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How can San Diego improve the pre-migration conditions of LGBTQI+ international migrants?
This paper looks at Biden's recent memorandum regarding LGBTQI+ international migrants and offers recommendations
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A Short Guide to Barrio Logan
While not everything on the block is included, here is a small look at what can be found in Barrio Logan.
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Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols: Restrictive Policy Prevents Migrants from Dignity on the U.S. Border
This policy brief discusses the multiple human rights abuses associated with the Migrant Protection Protocols and recommends policy changes
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East African Refugee Life in San Diego
This is a zine that provides some demographic information on the East African refugee population in San Diego as well as information on what
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Little Baghdad: An Iraqi Refugee Community Zine
I created a zine of the Iraqi refugee community in El Cajon that includes their history, demographics, businesses, resources, and an origina
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Trump's Executive Order Creates Diversity Within San Diego's Refugee Community
A policy brief that closely examines Executive Order 13769 and its effects on San Diego's refugee population.
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