Posts Tagged ‘resettlement’
One refugee’s quest to get to America — and the new lives of the family that did
I’ve enjoyed my online silence, which did indeed make me more productive, but this piece jolted me back into the game… In 2009, the Christian Science Monitor ran an award-winning year-long series, “Little Bill Clinton,” about nine-year-old Bill Clinton Hadam, a newly arrived refugee in Atlanta, and the charter school and community that became his [...]
Why German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than black people? Or maybe we just really, <em>really</em> hate the European Court of Human Rights? In late January, A US immigration judge in Memphis, Tenn., recently granted asylum to a German [...]
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