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The Journey To New York City: Global Migration Routes and Domestic Policy

August 22, 2024 By ELNOR Volunteer Since the spring of 2022, more than 150,100 people have immigrated to New York (Meko, 2023). Many of these people are from Latin America, the Caribbean, and West Africa. One of the main reasons for the surge is Venezuelan migration: seven million Venezuelans have left their home country since […]

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Refugee Professional Backgrounds & Aspirations: Insights for ESOL Curriculum

February, 2024 Report written by Stanton Geyer, Suha Abdulmalik, Lidia Klain Romão Edited by Amanda Fraine and Victoria Jones Table of Contents: Introduction Methodology & Demographic Data Findingsa. Subjects of Studyb. Professional Backgroundsc. Education Backgroundsd. Professional Skills          i. Professional Development         ii. Job Applications       iii. Target Skills Conclusion  Introduction

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Examining the Lack of Education in Greek Refugee camps: Summer Research ’22

August 31, 2022 By Victoria Jones and Stanton Geyer Between June 20 and July 8, 2022, ELNOR staff and volunteers conducted a research project to learn about children’s access to education in refugee camps in Greece. Greece, alongside Italy and Spain, receives the greatest number of asylum seekers in Europe per year, and its refugee

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ELNOR Report: Educational Backgrounds and Technology Access in Mavrovouni Refugee Camp

January, 2022 By Victoria Jones, Stanton Geyer, Lina Demis, Nora Lorenz  Table of Contents: Abstract. 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Relevance and Aims 1.2 Outline 2.0 Background 3.0 Methods 4.0 Findings 4.1 Language Interests 4.2 School Backgrounds 4.3 WiFi and Technology Access 4.4 Access to NGOs 4.5 Identities 4.6 Female Participants 5.0 Discussion 5.1 Language Interests and

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Why are people forced to migrate? The causes of forced migration and the laws regulating it

Forced migration is an umbrella term that covers various migrants’ conditions. In the academic and policy literature, ‘forced migration’ is used to identify refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people (IDPs) and stateless people (Ben-Yehuda and Goldstein, 2020). Forced migrants are generally defined as those who have left their homes due ‘to events that threatened their

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