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Enhanced Refugee Backgrounder: Refugees from Iraq
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Center for Applied Linguistics and Cultural Orientation Resource Center (2008)

Enhanced Backgrounder Series


This publication provides in-depth information about refugee groups from Iraq, describing the various ethnic and religious communities of Iraqi Arabs (both Sunni and Shi’a), Iraqi Christians, and others. View Product Page

Cultural Orientation Videos
A New Day: Refugee Families in the United States and
Be Who You Are: Refugee Youth in the United States    
Center for Applied Linguistics and Cultural Orientation Resource Center

These two new videos were created to assist refugees and refugee providers in learning about adjustment of refugee families and refugee youth to their new lives in the United States. Both are available on one VHS or DVD. View Product Page

Cultural Orientation for Refugees: A Handbook for U.S. Trainers
Cultural Orientation Resource Center

CAL has developed this useful trainer's manual that provides valuable information, lesson plans, and training resources in U.S. cultural orientation. Developed by the staff of the Cultural Orientation Resource Center housed at CAL, the handbook is a capacity-building effort designed to equip refugee service providers with an efficient and effective approach to cultural orientation (CO). View Product Page.

Culture Profiles Cultural Orientation Resource Center These profiles are developed for refugee service providers and others assisting newcomers to the United States. Profiles are available for the following refugee groups: The Bosnians Refugees from Burma The Haitians The Hmong The Iraqi Kurds The Liberians The Meskhetian Turks Muslim Refugees in the United States The Somali Bantu The Somalis

Refugee Backgrounders
Cultural Orientation Resource Center

COR Center backgrounders provide key information about new refugee groups for U.S. resettlement workers. Backgrounders include sections on the need for resettlement of the group to the United States, cultural attributes of the group, resettlement considerations, as well as a one page statistical summary.

No. 1 - The Banyamulenge Tutsi No. 2 - The 1972 Burundians No. 3 - The Kunama No. 4 - Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal

Welcome to the United States: A Guidebook for Refugees
Cultural Orientation Resource Center

This resettlement guide is given to all refugees overseas once they have been approved for resettlement to the United States. The Guidebook is intended to give refugees information about fundamental aspects of life in the United States and includes the following chapters: community services, housing, transportation, employment, education, health, managing your money, rights and responsibilities, and cultural adjustment. It is developed in an easy-to-read format, including photos and refugee quotes.

The accompanying Welcome to the United States Refugee Orientation video covers the same topics and includes interviews with refugees, service providers, employers and others. Available in VHS and DVD formats.

Welcome materials are available in the following languages:

English Af-Maay Arabic Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian Farsi French

Hmong Karen Karenni Kirundi Nepali Russian

Somali Spanish Swahili Vietnamese Tigrinya