SUBMISSIONS

This is intended to be a live, interactive website. We invite you to take part in the conversation and help build this repository by sharing your own experiences as and with newcomers through artwork, essays, reports, photos, short stories, and poetry about refugee life in San Diego.

Diana Calderon
Growth through Resiliency and Resettlement

Digital Collage

Ending Title 42: The Importance of Returning the United States to Universal Human Rights

An essay on the importance of ending the use of title 42 to expel asylum seekers. Icon image credit: Michael Chow/The Republic

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Akash Juwadi

The Housing Crisis

A piece about the increase in Housing prices in San Diego.

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Judy Kim

Tolerance Under the Sunset

This painting demonstrates the impact Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy had on family separation in San Diego.

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Sárah Pulido (she/hers)

Migrant ‘Protection’ Protocols: Restrictive Policy Prevents Migrants from Dignity on the U.S. Border

This policy brief discusses the multiple human rights abuses associated with the Migrant Protection Protocols and recommends policy changes

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Gabriela Esquivel

Detainee Direct Support

Getting in contact with the outside world.

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Diana Calderon

Growth through Resiliency and Resettlement

A collage that is inspired from the vibrancy and beauty of the Vietnamese in City Heights, San Diego.

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Leslie Santiago-Ruiz

East African Refugee Life in San Diego

This is a zine that provides some demographic information on the East African refugee population in San Diego as well as information on what

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Haofeng Chen

A Tour in City Heights

Observations in a very diverse area.

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Rahma Sudarmadji

Little Baghdad: An Iraqi Refugee Community Zine

I created a zine of the Iraqi refugee community in El Cajon that includes their history, demographics, businesses, resources, and an origina

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Xuan Wang

First Day of Being a Refugee

Artwork based on the real story to aims to raise public awareness about the challenges that refugees encounter, such as the language barrier

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