refugees

Growing familiar foods helps refugees feel at home

A conversation with geographer Pablo Bose about New Farms for New Americans. A program that allows refugees to grow familiar foods from their homelands and share them with their new communities.

In her talk at Indiana University in January of 2024, Dr. Tammy Ho shared her research about how sushi rolling became a common occupation for Burmese refugees in the United States.

Sushi rolling, meatpacking and community gardening

Kayte Young

Tammy Ho talks about her research on Burmese refugees in the US food system.

Julieta Valls Noyes, assistant secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, during a visit to Indiana this week.

“We’d love to see more refugees resettled here.” U.S. Department of State visits Indiana to promote Welcome Corps

The program is aimed at growing community support around newly arrived refugees.

Sushi rolling, meatpacking and community gardening

Kayte Young

Tammy Ho talks about her research on Burmese refugees in the US food system.

In the past, adjustments acts have been passed after parole status was used on a large. The National Immigration Forum sites the Indochinese Adjustment Act from 2000 and the Cuban Adjustment Act from 1966.

Indiana resettlement group wants Congress to pass Afghan Adjustment Act

Bente Bouthier

US immigration services gave Afghan evacuees parole status. It’s used for urgent humanitarian need, when refugee and Special Immigrant Visa processes are too slow.

Volunteers with the Rural Women's Circles in Korczowa, Poland organized to share homemade hot soup with refugees crossing into Poland from war-torn Ukraine in March, 2022.

“Profound acts of care” at the Ukrainian-Polish border [replay]

Kayte Young

Stories of ordinary people assisting those fleeing Ukraine at the start of the war earlier this year.

Their father Kostyantyn was a professor at multiple universities, and their mother Olesia owns and operates a Montessori school in Kyiv.

West Lafayette Ukrainian family seeks visa extension, tells story of survival

Joe Hren

A West Lafayette resident has taken in her family from Ukraine amidst the invasion of their home country. The family tells their story of survival.

“It all started with soup,” Polish volunteers nourish Ukrainians fleeing war

Kayte Young

A conversation with Elizabeth Dunn about volunteers at the Polish-Ukrainian border who were the first to provide aid to refugees.

IU professor traveling to Kyiv to continue research on refugees, humanitarian aid

Mitch Legan

Elizabeth Dunn is director of the IU Center for Refugee Studies and is studying the humanitarian aid response in Europe, where an estimated 15 million Ukrainians have been displaced by the war.

A former Army sergeant from Indiana is helping with the refugee crisis unfolding in Ukraine.

Former Indiana Army sergeant helping with the Ukrainian refugee crisis

Joe Hren

A northern Indiana man who just returned from Ukraine's border felt helpless watching the invasion on TV and wanted to do more to help.