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Amid Significant U.S. Labor Force Needs, Higher Ed Should Focus More on Its Growing Immigrant-Origin Student Population
By Migration Policy Institute
8/02/2023
https://migrationpolicy.salsalabs.org/pr-immigrant-students?wvpId=1146a4fd-6e20-452a-9381-36a6bbfb1972

Refugees and Asylees in the United States
By Nicole Ward and Jeanne Batalova
6/15/2023
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugees-and-asylees-united-states?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=18f06e55-9384-43c8-a68f-7efc94fbf981

Meet the New Mayor: How a Refugee Won Over a Conservative German Town
By Erika Solomon
5/28/2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/world/europe/germany-refugee-elected-mayor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Understanding Poverty Declines among Immigrants and Their Children in the United States
By Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
5/2023
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/poverty-declines-immigrants-united-states?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=46be0d52-f6ca-4117-953c-2f214a7f093e

GSEHD Conference Provides Afghan Students a Platform to Share Their Stories
By Brook Endale
4/19/23
https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gsehd-conference-provides-afghan-students-platform-share-their-stories

The Rohingya fled genocide. Now, violence stalks them as refugees.
By Rebecca Tan
3/7/23
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/07/rohingya-refugees-targeted-killings-cox-bazar/

‘Constantly displaced’: migrants to New York City seek housing in freezing cold
By Samira Asma-Sadeque
2/4/23
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/04/displaced-migrants-brooklyn-new-york-city-housing-cold-weather

Biden at the Two-Year Mark: Significant Immigration Actions Eclipsed by Record Border Numbers
By Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph
1/26/23
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-two-years-immigration-record?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d42abf14-d1e2-4500-99ff-b975de255742

IIE Refugee EdTech Program – edX MicroMasters®
IIE – Educational Opportunity for Refugee Students
Application Deadline: 2/14/23
https://www.iie.org/Programs/IIE-Refugee-EdTech-Program-edX-MicroMasters/Introduction

Taliban Bar Women From College Classes, in a Stark Reversal of Rights
By Christina Goldbaum and Najim Rahim
12/20/22
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-women-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Immigrant College Grads Are More Likely to Have Advanced Degrees and Higher Incomes than the U.S. Born Yet Some Still Face Skill Underutilization, Analysis Finds
Migration Policy Institute
12/15/22
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/us-college-grads-piaac

Top 10 Migration Issues of 2022
Migration Policy Institute
12/12/22
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/migration-information-source/top-10-migration-issues-2022

Activists appeal for rescue of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea in leaking boat
By Rebecca Ratcliffe
12/10/22
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/10/activists-appeal-rescue-rohingya-refugees-boat-bangladesh-malaysia?CMP=share_btn_link

Biden has tried to rebuild the refugee system. This year will test that.
By Rebecca Beitsch
10/2/22
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-has-tried-to-rebuild-the-refugee-system-this-year-will-test-that/ar-AA12vlUY

The other Death Valley: hundreds of migrants are dying in remote Texas deserts
By Peter Yeung
8/19/22
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/19/migrant-deaths-border-crossing-texas-mexico-extreme-heat

‘Regimes Like the Taliban That Impose Themselves on Nations Will Not Last Long’
Omar Ahmadi
8/12/22
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-refugees-students.html

‘In the United States, I Feel Optimistic’
Samira Rustami
8/12/22
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-refugees-students.html

‘I Plan to Encourage and Inspire Women With My Success’
Marwa Rahim
8/12/22
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-refugees-students.html

‘My School Had No Chairs, No Blackboards, No Books’
Mursal Rahim
8/12/22
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-refugees-students.html

Supporting Refugee and Displaced Students on Campus
By Karen Doss Bowman
8/3/22
https://www.nafsa.org/ie-magazine/2022/8/3/supporting-refugee-and-displaced-students-campus

Simple ways universities can collaborate to bring more refugees into higher education
By Rebecca Granato
06/30/2022
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/simple-ways-universities-can-collaborate-bring-more-refugees-higher-education

REAL highlighted in CIES Perspectives (p. 17)
Spring 2022
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cies.us/resource/collection/111E0488-3E6F-4A6D-849E-2D5BFD509636/CIES_NL_Spr2022_041822a.pdf

American professor: Food and a roof over their heads are not enough for refugees. We accept Ukrainians more easily because they resemble us
By Pavol Štrba
04/17/2022
https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/9MliRAv/americky-profesor-utecencom-nestaci-len-jedlo-a-strecha-nad-hlavou-ukrajincov-prijimame-lahsie-lebo-sa-nam-podobaju/

GW Plays Role in Launching Campaign Advocating for University Sponsorship of Refugee Students
GW Today
12/03/2021
https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-plays-role-launching-campaign-advocating-university-sponsorship-refugee-students 

A Push to Bring Refugees to College
By Eric Hoover
11/18/2021
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-push-to-bring-refugees-to-college