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Welcome to the archives of Refugees Deeply. While we paused regular publication of the site on April 1, 2019, we are happy to serve as an ongoing public resource on refugees and migration. We hope you’ll enjoy the reporting and analysis that was produced by our dedicated community of editors and contributors.
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What happens when refugees lead policy development? This series profiles leaders who have a refugee background and today are shaping policies on refugees and migration, whether in political office or as leaders of communities and organizations around the world.
As part of our series “When Refugees Lead,” we speak with Rocio Cifuentes, chair of the Welsh Refugee Coalition and director of the Ethnic Youth Support Team, whose family fled dictatorship in Chile when she was an infant.
As part of our series ‘When Refugees Lead,’ we speak with Omid Nouripour, a German politician from the Green Party whose family fled Iran in the 1980s.
As part of our series ‘When Refugees Lead,’ we speak with Kathy Tran, a refugee from Vietnam who became the first Vietnamese-American elected to Virginia’s state legislature last year.
As part of our series “When Refugees Lead,” we talk to Islamic Relief Worldwide CEO Naser Haghamed, who fled Eritrea as a child and now leads one of the world’s largest independent humanitarian organizations.
We speak with Canada’s minister of refugees and immigration Ahmed Hussen about how his own experience of displacement influenced his career and policy-making for our new series on leadership by refugees.
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