April 22, 2021
Individuals from the refugee community wait in line to receive their COVID-19 vaccine at the UC San Diego Health mobile vaccine clinic in City Heights. The Impact of COVID-19 on San Diego’s Refugee Community When COVID-19 officially became a pandemic in March 2020, the world and life as we knew…
October 25, 2024
UC San Diego alumna Mary Kouyoumdijian developed “Paper Pianos” to highlight the global refugee crisis.
October 10, 2019
When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: anti-Muslim bias prevails across the board in the U.S. but differs across subgroups.
May 29, 2014
…county’s growing immigrant and refugee communities with much-needed multi-lingual, “culturally competent” family doctors. “We hear these heartbreaking stories of people who were heads of departments and are now almost ashamed in front of their families about being unemployed,” said Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy, professor and chief of the Division of Global…
September 20, 2024
A survey of Syrian refugees living in Jordan reveals that higher levels of self-compassion are associated with better mental health. The findings suggest that interventions teaching self-compassion have the potential to boost the mental health of displaced individuals.
April 21, 2017
The first “Militarism & Migration” academic conference will be presented in the City Heights neighborhood — historically serving as the home for the majority of resettled refugees in the city — April 21-23 at the East African Community and Cultural Center.
March 10, 2016
…calling to aid Syrian refugees in Greece during a trip that started off as a mere vacation. While her documentary was truly impromptu, humanitarian aid has a very deliberate significance for Vayntrub, who graduated from Marshall College in 2008. A refugee herself, Vayntrub was born in Uzbekistan and fled the…
February 22, 2012
The economic, political and social achievements of women will be celebrated as part of the 101st anniversary of International Women’s Day, March 4 from 2 to 4 p.m., at the University of California, San Diego. The event, free and open to the public, will be held in UC San Diego’s…
December 15, 2016
University of California San Diego researchers are leading three separate research projects, each involving faculty from across the UC system. A total of $3.79 million in grants from the University of California Multicampus Research and Programs Initiatives has been awarded to fund the work.
December 7, 2017
…began locally, working with refugees arriving in San Diego from his native Iraq and neighboring countries in the Middle East, such as Syria and Somalia. In a study of 198 Somali mother and child refugee pairs, he and colleagues Patricia L. East and Sheila Gahagan in the Department of Pediatrics…
