Newcomers by the Numbers
Melting Pot of Words
How on Earth...?
Refuge for Greatness
100
The percentage of U.S. students that are Multilingual Learners (MLs)?
What is 10%?
100
A person forced to flee their country due to war, persecution, or violence.
What is a refugee?
100
"no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark" (From "Home" by Warsan Shire)
The three most common reasons a person becomes either a refugee, asylum seeker, or internally displaced person.
What are armed conflict, generalized violence, persecution?
100
Who is Gloria Estefan
(Fled Cuba with her family...)
200
This is the number of countries worldwide that offer resettlement or humanitarian admission
What is 33?
200
A student with limited or interrupted formal education.
What is a SLIFE student?
200
This primary law protecting refugees was established in the aftermath of WWII, and amended in 1967 to make sure that ratifying countries understood that their obligation included ALL refugees, not only those from Europe.
What is the Geneva Convention?
200
Who is co-founder, Sergey Brin (Russian Jewish immigrant, came to the U.S. in 1977)?
300
According to the overview provided by HIAS, this is the number of refugees worldwide.
What is 25 million?
(In 2018, 1.5 million were identified for resettlement)
300
An immigrant typically chooses to move to another county for work and/or family. An asylum seeker moves for this reason.
What is for safety and protection?
It's for opposite reasons. An asylum seeker is leaving work and family while an immigrant is gaining it.
300
If a refugee gets an appointment with UNHCR for a series of face-to-face interviews, they are likely being considered for this process, which also includes extensive background checks that utilize biodata and biometrics.
What is resettlement?
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
In 2018, this many people were forced to flee their homes per day because of conflict and persecution.
a. About 10,000
b. About 20, 000
c. About 40,000
What is "c", about 40,000?
From the text:
"44,400 people per day were forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution - a rate of 1 person every two seconds"
400
A government-issued ID that proves a person is a lawful permanent resident of the United States. It allows them to live and work in the U.S. permanently, though they are not U.S. citizens.
What is a green card?
400
Once a refugee has been identified as candidate for resettlement, the screening process can take anywhere from ____ to _____months (and sometimes longer) depending on a refugee’s region of origin.
What is 18 to 24?
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
This 1982 Supreme Court case guaranteed public education to all children, regardless of immigration status.
What is Plyler v. Doe?