OPPORTUNITY, NOT PROBLEM To understand the behavior of refugees in NYC, with a focus on legal requirements to daily activities, from recent settlement to two years in. To understand the unique skills of refugees as related to language, cooking, entrepreneurship, and business. To understand the emotional needs of refugees, with a focus on family, transitioning, …
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information needed
For both adult and child populations, the information I really need to understand is what are the biggest issues and barriers that refugees deal with. This could be language, finding work, health, community, more. Undoubtedly, they are all interrelated. This information is important because of the hierarchy of needs. These issues are all building blocks. …
research plan
Teaching pre-school in Istanbul really revealed to me how rewarding it is to work with children. And as the most vulnerable population of refugees, it seems an obvious choice. My three years lesson planning and teaching in Istanbul is a great preparation. I’m most worried about finding and maintaining an available refugee child population to …
reframing refugees
Which focus area are you feeling drawn to? Why? I’m drawn to designing approaches to dealing with the current refugee crisis. I’ve been passionate about this project ever since I was living in Istanbul among Syrians and saw first-hand how debilitating it is to be forced out of your home. I saw how war tears …
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