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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

The two cultural anthropologists on our team (Hansen and Yarris) regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to immigration policy, migration studies, deportation, and immigrant social movements. While most faculty we reached out to were supportive of the project, some raised concerns.

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‘Positive culture shock’ spells challenges and triumphs for Afghan teen students

The Hechinger Report

Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. s teachers translated documents in Dari before administering tests, but she could not read them since she did not attend school in Afghanistan. Mohammadi’s friend N.W.,

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

It can’t happen,” said Brenda Tooley, director of global studies at Knox College, which is offering full-tuition scholarships to two Syrian students who will begin in January. And if they don’t have academic transcripts or documents such as high school diplomas, they can take foundation courses to prove they’re ready for admission.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

Some instructors said they often eschew textbooks for primary sources, such as first-person accounts of life before and after slavery as told by formerly enslaved people and historic documents, such as sharecropper contracts, to teach about that era. Reconstruction is the answer to that question.”.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

It can’t happen,” said Brenda Tooley, director of global studies at Knox College, which is offering full-tuition scholarships to two Syrian students who will begin in January. And if they don’t have academic transcripts or documents such as high school diplomas, they can take foundation courses to prove they’re ready for admission.