For refugees, the road to resettlement is often far from smooth. In Chicago, a number of events are taking place to honor the experiences of refugees and celebrate their contributions to their new home for World Refugee Day on Tuesday, June 20.
Tuesday, June 20, is World Refugee Day, a day recognizing people from around the world who have been forced to flee their home countries. In Chicago, a number of events are taking place to honor the experiences of refugees and celebrate their contributions to their new home.Crucial to understanding the refugee experience is understanding how they are legally distinct from other categories of immigrants, said Chicago Refugee Coalition executive director Alisa Bhachu.
Centro Romero is the city’s oldest organization supporting refugees primarily of Latino origin. One of its founding members, Daysi Funes, came to the U.S. as a refugee from El Salvador in the 1980s. She said refugees today face many of the same challenges as they did back then. Of the largely Venezuelan immigrant population recently arrived in Chicago, Bhachu said, “they fall with all of the humanitarian rights to have the ability to apply for asylum in a country of safety and security. So they have a right to … be here and a right to seek protection based on their unique claims.”
“I think the biggest expectation would be that they thought they would work right away and provide for themselves and their family here and back home,” Kraal said. “Once it is clear that that’s not happening, they should actually be redirected to filing their asylum claim and finding the proofs that they have for that asylum. So that’s a procedure; it takes time. And we see that they don’t know how to do it, the desperation and then mental health problems, they definitely need help.
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