Recommended Listening: Before Me
We’re listening to Before Me, journalist Lisa Phu’s exploration of her mother’s journey fleeing her home in Cambodia, spending 6 years protecting her family in Vietnam, and ultimately resettling in Am...
10 Tammi 202328min
Bonus: Reclaiming the Refugee Narrative
In this stripped down conversation, Ahmed Badr speaks with Dr. Chioke I’Anson of the VPM+ICA Community Media Center about the ethics of storytelling, the power of creative platforms, and techniques fo...
12 Marras 20201h 9min
Bonus: Language
One of the most common challenges refugees face is not speaking the language of their new country. You heard hints of this in some of the stories we told in Resettled: One of the first things that res...
31 Heinä 202017min
6. Resettled?
Do you ever truly feel resettled? What exactly does that mean, and how do you get there? For Mrs. Lailuma, a recent widow with children, arriving in Charlottesville, Virginia meant adapting not only t...
24 Heinä 202029min
5. Culture
When you’re so busy adopting new ways of life, it might not seem like there’s any room for your traditions. So how do you carry your culture with you to a brand new place -- and keep it intact? For Ch...
17 Heinä 202027min
4. Jobs
When Bhutan established a "one nation, one people" policy in the 1980s, Dadi Neopaney and his family had to flee or lose their way of life. Dadi grew up as a stateless refugee in camps before he and h...
10 Heinä 202032min
3. Health
While refugees are subjected to medical tests and scrutiny during their resettlement process, issues of mental health can last for decades or, left untreated, for lifetimes. In his early 20s, Ahmed Al...
3 Heinä 202029min
