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Photo credit: Doris Carlson Doris Carlson and her student during one of her sewing lessons.

New Creations Trade stepping up to help refugees in Tucson earn a living through sewing lessons

Vika Estimee Nimenya
June 15, 2022
(Courtesy of Garry Knight CC0 1.0 Universal)

Here’s how you can help the people of Ukraine

Sam Parker
March 2, 2022
Students that work at the Refugee Project at their meeting.

Students assist in refugee resettlement through Refugee Project

Contributed by Mandy Loader
January 29, 2020
At the  second annual Walk a Mile in a Refugees Shoes simulation event workers like Imani Cruz (right) educated people on the refugee experience. Te event took place Thursday, March 14, on the University of Arizona Mall. 

Simulation event offers insight into refugee experience

Quincy Sinek
March 15, 2019
On Feb. 11 2017, around 2000 people gathered in Minneapolis in support of immigrants and refugees. Most of the conversation around the caravan from Honduras has not been supportive, as of recently.

Two UA professors study shifting public opinion toward migrants

Randall Eck
March 3, 2019

Tucson community and DACA students march on City Hall

Kelly Dorney
September 7, 2017
Jack Speelman, center, helps load harvested fruit into trucks to be shipped back to headquarters on June 9. Trees and plants that produce edible fruit are more common than one may think; Iskashitaa utilizes both a network of homeowners and their knowledge of the area to establish harvesting locations.

Iskashitaa Refugee Network collects, distributes food, helps refugees find community

Marissa Heffernan
June 10, 2017
Melanie Cooley, left, and Houda Houssam, right, talk about their work and their radio show at the Dismantling Fear event held at ENR2 on April 20. Houssam is a 19-year-old refugee from Syria who came to Tucson with her family in fall of last year.

Refugees, advocates give context to immigrating to US

Marissa Heffernan
April 21, 2017
President Donald Trump signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 24. Trumps revised executive order barring entry from several Muslim countries will go into effect March 16.

Trump signs revised executive order limiting refugees, Middle East travel

Shaq Davis
March 7, 2017
Border Patrol agents patrol the Rio Grande River near the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

UA professors receive $1.4 million grant to study motive and movement of refugees

Randall Eck
February 22, 2017
Three Syrian women sell cookies and drinks at their bake sale, December 2016. The bake sale featured Syrian desserts.

Syrian refugees make a new home in Tucson with help from local organizations

Chloe Raissen
January 22, 2017
Courtesy of Angela Knerl/Linking Edible Arizona Forests A student with harvested fruit on the UA campus in 2014. The Linking Edible Arizona Forests group will harvest the citrus that grows on the trees populating campus.

Fruit for thought around UA campus

Chastity Laskey
February 2, 2015
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