In the world of ethnic museums, there is often a focus on both art and the everyday life of immigrant communities, often in a historic context. They are often linked, but the focus on art and everyday life as part of historic pasts often forgets the importance of art...
The Quilted Conscience (TQC) is inspired by the Nebraska born-and-raised social justice pioneer Grace Abbott who, in 1934, said, “Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy” (ii). Grace Abbott was a leader in the struggles to improve life for America’s...
In recent years, the number of immigrants and refugees to enter the United States has remained significant. According to Krogstad and Radford (2017), 84,995 were admitted to the U.S. in 2016 alone. Refugees bring with them not only culture, language, and traditions,...
Even when immigrants and refugees embrace a move that takes them to a more stable and prosperous place, resettlement poses challenges of physical, psychological, and cultural adaptation. Many new Americans ease transition by continuing, recreating, or reinventing...
Erie, Pennsylvania, is a Rust Belt city of about 100,000 in the Great Lakes region. Although we have a relatively small resettled refugee community, refugees represent about 11 percent of our population, one of the highest percentages in the nation. The refugee...
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