Newcomers by the Numbers
Melting Pot of Words
How on Earth...?
Refuge for Greatness
100
What percentage of U.S. students are English Learners (ELs)?
What is about 10%?
100
"someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion."
What is a refugee?
100
The agency that coordinates refugee resettlement in the U.S.
What is the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)?
100
Who is Gloria Estefan
(Fled Cuba with her family...)
200
How many refugees are resettled in the U.S. annually, on average (pre-COVID)?
What is around 70,000?
200
This term describes a person who has been forced to flee their home, but hasn't crossed their country's borders.
What is an internally displaced person?
(UNHCR estimates that this applies to about 40 million people - of the 68.5+ million people who are displaced worldwide.)
200
One item refugees often receive in a “welcome kit” when arriving in the U.S.
What is a hygiene kit? (or bedding, or cooking utensils—multiple correct)
200
Who is co-founder, Sergey Brin (Russian Jewish immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1977)?
300
What percentage of U.S. EL students were born in the U.S.?
What is 75%?
300
Alphabet soup. In the context of refugee resettlement, DOS and DHS stand between refugees and a new home country. This is what they stand FOR.
What are Department of State and Department of Homeland Security?
300
True or False: Refugees get free housing for as long as they need.
What is false.
300
“23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington, DC. Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress.”
Who said this?
Who is Ilhan Omer? (Came to the U.S. from Somalia in 1995)
400
How long does it typically take for a student to develop academic English proficiency?
What is 5 to 7 years?
400
Also known as "green card" status, being a permanent legal resident of the U.S. allows you to do this.
What is work?
400
The first type of school enrollment meeting refugee students often attend.
What is an intake or registration meeting with a language placement assessment?
400
"Once a refugee gets a job, that’s the moment they stop being a refugee."
Founder and CEO of Chobani Yogurt, best-selling Greek yogurt in the U.S.
Who is Hamdi Ulukaya? (Kurdish, came from Turkey)
500
What percent of the world's refugees are under the age of 18?
What is about 40%?
500
One common reason a refugee family might move again after initial resettlement.
What is to be closer to family/community or for more affordable housing?