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Religious Resettlement Agencies Funnel Refugees to Exploitative Slaughterhouse Work
Starting in the 1980s U.S. religious organizations began to take over the government’s role in resettling refugees, often in dangerous and underpaid slaughterhouse and meatpacking... Read More
How Fear of Deportation Silences Immigrant Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
Heightened immigration enforcement across the United States has created a dangerous environment for immigrant survivors of gender-based violence whose fear of deportation or arrest by... Read More
Between Fear and Hope: An interview with Ayat Altaii
Ayat Altaii has recently published the first volume of her memoir ‘Between Fear and Hope: A Journey from Iraq to America‘. Refugee Research Online... Read More
Freedom of expression at risk as US agency ends COVID-era interpretation services
Introduction In a move that has caused much anger and confusion, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is no longer providing free interpretation... Read More
Expanding Humanitarian Parole
In January of 2023, the Biden Administration formally announced its new approach to border enforcement and immigration policy. Facing the inevitable end of Title 42,... Read More
It’s All in the Bag: Refugees and Materiality
My grandmother made us chicken and made us sandwiches to take […] My mom was telling me that her, my aunt, was trying, you know,... Read More
Echoes of the Past in Europe’s Two-Tier Approach to Refugees
They are the lucky ones. A group of female journalists, legislators and judges from Afghanistan who have found a temporary safe haven in Greece and... Read More