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Regional Government of Ethiopia representative visits North America and is interviewed by Sagal Radio on January 31, 2011. Listen to audio
Staying healthy means knowing when and where to go for medical help and having access to experts who can speak your language, culturally and linguistically.... read more
A third-year law student outlines the case for an independent Somaliland. A paper he has written on this topic is also available for download. Listen to audio
The flow of immigrants to the United States has resumed after falling to the lowest level in decades during the recession, a new study finds.... Visit website
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as a rising black middle class... Visit website
Several musicals include the plights of immigrants from the early 20th Century through today. (One-time PRX registration required.) read more
Around the country, community media centers are launching exciting new
collaborations with local organizations, neighborhood activists,
schools, and media outlets to create online, hyperlocal citizen... Visit website
Amanda Plumb recounts her visit with the teens who produce the HearMe Today program. She asked them questions and then later, when they visited the... read more
The cholera outbreak, with 259 deaths and more than 3,300 confirmed
cases counted as of Monday morning, has so far been contained to the
region around the... read more
What happens when college students without papers reveal their status in public and put themselves on the line? New Routes leader, Tania Unzueta gets a... read more
The first Chinese came to America to build the trans continental railroad. Once it was finished they were left to fend for themselves. The immigrants... Visit website
“Across Washington state and throughout the country, increasing numbers
of refugee families — displaced people from war-torn parts of the world
— are confronting homelessness all over... read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The smell of corn roasting on sidewalk grills, the oompah beat of Latin music blasting from mom-and-pop stores, colorful signs touting... Visit website
Proponents of repealing the 14th Amendment call them "anchor babies," and a new report says there are a whole lot of them. According to the... Visit website
From the Chicago Tribune: NEW YORK — Thousands of mentally disabled immigrants are entangled in deportation proceedings each year with little or no legal help,... Visit website
What are your kids doing this summer?
Swimming, playing, going to camp?
For some children in America-- hundreds of thousands of them-- summer
... read more
Cheering music from around the world starts off this enjoyable radio program recorded on World Refugee Day 2010. Then you can listen to on-site interviews... Listen to audio
The New York office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services naturalized about 90,000 people last year; the process is far
from simple. (New York Times.... read more
Minnesota Effort Seeks to Ease Rural Poverty Through 'Agripreneurship' Northfield, MN – In recent years, immigrants have flocked to rural communities with the dream of... Visit website
Mexicans, New York’s fastest-growing major immigrant group, are becoming a mainstay in Belmont, known as the Little Italy of the Bronx. Visit website
Emory's faculty and staff newspaper, Emory Report, highlighted HEARMe and Project Coordinator Hussien Mohamed in the latest issue! Read all about it at http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/2008/July/July7/HEARme.htm read more
"The Library of America anthology Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing is daunting, weighing in at 724 pages -- however much a hardcover wrapped... Visit website
A theater troupe of day laborers for day laborers, Teatro Jornalero,
performs educational plays about labor and immigration laws, mixed in
with the challenges day laborers face.... read more
In multi-lingual communities, civil authorities have to work harder and smarter to prepare for emergencies and cope with their aftermath. It's happening in Alabama.
... Visit website
Yvonne, a live-in nanny and member of Domestic Workers United
shares stories that illustrate the need for domestic workers to have
equal labor protections and benefits-- two... read more
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