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The Keokuk Refugee Coalition has partnered with the Keokuk Area Community Foundation and the Keokuk Christian Ministerial Association to help Ukrainian refugees find shelter and employment.
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Many Afghans who arrived in Iowa last year only are permitted to live in the U.S. temporarily. A new coalition is working to help as many of them receive permanent legal status as possible.
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Many of the Afghans who have arrived in Iowa are only permitted to stay in the U.S. for two years. Iowa organizations are hosting free legal clinics to help them gain a more permanent legal status.
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The team of researchers will look at the challenges of refugee organizations in finding safe, stable and adequate housing for refugees that resettle in Iowa.
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An Afghan parolee reflects on her life in Iowa one year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
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The drivers license written exam isn't readily available in Afghan languages. So, resettlement organizations in Sioux City are working with the Iowa Department of Transportation to change that.
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More Iowa businesses want to hire refugees amid a statewide labor shortage. IowaWORKS is working to train those companies on how to do it right.
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More than 100 Afghan refugees moved to Sioux City to work at the meat processing plant across the border in Nebraska. But, the resources they needed to resettle in Iowa weren’t always quick to follow.
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Charity Nebbe talks to Debra Marquart, Iowa’s Poet Laureate, about her book The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging.
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Four diverse Iowa communities discussed how policy-makers can better serve immigrant and refugee communities at a panel hosted by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council on Wednesday.