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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
Rotary Echo: A Call for Justice
The phone - a call to Justice surrounding the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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Vietnamese Coffee Culture: A Reflection and Photo Essay on Coffee and San Diego’s Vietnamese Community
A reflection about how coffee is a socializing tool for the Vietnamese community, drawing on my own experiences.
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Space BY and FOR Refugee Communities in San Diego
This zine sheds light on the services and opportunities of diverse San Diego based refugee organizations.
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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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"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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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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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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A SpaceTime Tour of Chicano Park
A short photo essay on a journey through the history of Barrio Logan and Chicano Park.
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Lessons from The Kitchenistas of San Diego
In this commentary, I look at lessons learned from the documentary "The Kitchenistas of National City"
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Photo Essay: Afghan Refugees and Kabul Kabob House
refugee-owned restaurant 'Kabul Kabob House' brings forth Afghan culture and cuisine to the city of El Cajon.
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From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free
This contribution showcases my family's journey of immigrating from Ramallah, Palestine to San Diego and uplifts their story.
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Refugee Healing
With collective power in refugee mental health healing comes light.
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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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Know That What Has Come to You Could Not Have Missed You
An Oral History Narrative of an Afghan refugee in San Diego
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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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