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“So, this is the story of how I came from Afghanistan to New York”

From Kabul to New York City

Abdul S.– name changed, is an exiled professor of epidemiology at Kabul University of Medical Science and the first Afghan scholar to accept a…

“But the refugees status is not so comfortable, everyone gets uncomfortable, even depressed, anxious. This is something, that we also have, but we are going to adjust and to adapt ourselves to the new life here in New York.”

Support is Key: HIAS and Columbia University in New York City

Abdul S. – name changed, is an exiled professor of epidemiology at Kabul University of Medical Science and the first Afghan scholar to accept a…

“Currently I feel like in exile…. because I can’t leave United States and go somewhere else.”

New York City: No City of Refugees

Abdul S. – name changed, is an exiled professor of epidemiology at Kabul University of Medical Science and the first Afghan scholar to accept a…

“Jews were boat people before that description was invented for Vietnamese refugees.”

After Istanbul: Arrival, Internment and Settling In in British Mandate Palestine

In her 1984 memoirs, Susanne Friedmann-Kirsch (born 1926) describes her family’s flight migration – a “three-year odyssey” – from Vienna after the Anschluss in…

From Kabul to New York City

Support is Key: HIAS and Columbia University in New York City

New York City: No City of Refugees

After Istanbul: Arrival, Internment and Settling In in British Mandate Palestine

Journeys from the Abyss: Constructing the Migrant as Illegal Tony Kushner

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