Tag Archives: Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services

This Week in New Haven (February 7 – 13)

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V-Day lands on a Monday, so dinner, dancing and dessert drinks happen this week instead. …

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Status Check

- Photography by Marc Hors - www.marchors.com

In its 382-year history, New Haven has often served as a sanctuary for those in need, from the Puritan settlers who viewed it as a religious and economic “haven” to the more than…

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Going the Distance

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“Dad, I didn’t imagine it like this—so lonely,” says 16-year-old Nadir, a refugee from Syria, in an installment of Welcome to the New World, a cartoon strip series published in 2017 by The New York Times. His words …

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Truth Be Told

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A woman in need of subsidized housing is unfairly turned away for a second time. A homeless man meets someone willing to do more than just hand him some food. A…

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Daily Bread

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Hyclis Williams is on the move. It’s 7:30 on a Friday morning, and she’s already backed her gold minivan up to the loading dock at Chabaso Bakery in Fair Haven. She signs in just inside the back door, and a …

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Progressive Tense

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Imagine moving to a country with a language and a culture completely foreign to you. Imagine you’re there not because you’re looking for an adventure but because…

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Conscience Effort

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The term “collective consciousness” is both a mouthful and a brainful—and established enough to get an entry in the Encyclopedia of Social Problems: …

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Food Change

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It was Nieda Abbas’s home cooking, more than anything, that got Caterina Passoni through her first year at Yale. …

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Home Run

2014 IRIS Run for Refugees

It was January of 2017, and the organizers of the 10th annual Run for Refugees were about to get a jolt. …

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This Week in New Have (January 29 – February 4)

2014 Run for Refugees. Photographed by Uma Ramiah.

Two substantive panel discussions, two hard-hitting rock shows, two marquee sporting events and two very confused hitmen share the spotlight…

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