Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Lessons from Utica, a small city that welcomed and was transformed by refugees

 

The Bosnian Islamic Association bought this former United Methodist church from the city of Utica to provide worship space for the growing Bosnian Muslim community. The first Bosnian refugees arrived in the Rust Belt city in 1993.
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Lessons from Utica, a small city that welcomed and was transformed by refugees

by Daniel P. Horan
Jun 15, 2022  ncr

Utica is unquestionably better off because of the thousands of refugees and their families that have resettled there, and as Susan Hartman's new book makes clear in their own words, so are they.

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