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Immigrants, refugees still linked to home countries
By Sheila Regan
How do immigrant lives remain linked to their home countries? When are these ties problematic? How do the links differ from generation to generation and from one immigrant group to another? Immigrant leaders and immigration scholars at the University of Minnesota addressed these questions February 1 at the University of Minnesota. The conference, titled Linked Lives: When are Immigrant and Refugee Engagements Problemetized? was sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, the Immigration History Research Center, the Department of Sociology, the European Studies Consortium, and the MN Department of Education's Refugee School Impact Grant. MORE »
Status of Liberians in the U.S.
Since the former rebel leader Charles Taylor stepped down as Liberia's president in June 2003, the country's civil war is said to be over. But a struggle still exists for many Liberians living in Minnesota who now have to deal with returning to their homeland.
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