A recent De Moines Register article reported that scores of people from Somalia have arrived in Postville, Iowa to work at the Agriprocessors plant that was recently raided. Read More
Some of the thousands of Liberians living in New York appear to have brought some of their country’s volatile politics with them. New York Region. Read More
The 10-fold expansion of a system to help threatened Iraqi employees obtain U.S. visas and ultimately citizenship comes after criticism over delays. Read More at the New York Times Immigration and Refugees Web site
Lawyers said tens of thousands of people in New York City were at risk of being disenfranchised in the November elections because the government was taking so long to process their citizenship applications. Read More at the New York Times Immigration and Refugees Web site
This is an international advocacy and domestic refugee resettlement organization. Through the Healthy Refugees, Healthy Families initiative USCRI does health promotion trainings with the refugee communities, and makes health brochures, which are translated into refugee languages.
On March 26, 2008, the Philadelphia New Routes team officially launched the Media Partnerships for Community Engagement in Southeast Asian Health at WHYY TV12 studio. Read More
Who are today’s immigrants? How do they impact the communities we live in? This section of the Immigration Policy Center Website addresses immigrant integration, examines foreign-born crime rates, education, access to healthcare and host of other issues. Download reports from a variety of sources.
Information provided by the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Interesting piece on mental health done by UN.
partners.newroutes.org (grantee resources)
A national program of the