refugee

For many people who have come to Maine recently from other countries, the pandemic has created additional challenges to their already difficult time…

We learn about the status of asylum seekers who arrived in Portland in June. Many have moved into out of Portland, into host families’ homes or into…

Call Me American is Abdi Nor Iftin's memoir about fleeing war-torn Somalia. While living under Islamic extremism, he escaped through American movies and…

Mariam Jalabi, the representative of the Syrian Opposition Coalition to the United Nations, and University of Maine at Farmington professor Scott Erb join…

This is a rebroadcast of an earlier show; no calls will be takenWhat services are in place to empower immigrants and refugees once they come to Maine?…

What services are in place to empower immigrants and refugees once they come to Maine? Many of these newer arrivals thrive once they are connected to job…

Catholic Charities Maine Refugee and Immigrant Services has resettled more than 12,000 refugees in the past 30 years. With refugees continuing to arrive…

On this Thanksgiving eve, about a hundred people picketed the front lawn of the Blaine House to protest Governor LePage's opposition to allowing ten…

Life as a refugee or asylee in Maine. What are the challenges and opportunities to resettling from a foreign land to Maine?Host Keith Shortall was joined…