{"id":5804,"date":"2013-06-14T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:21:12","slug":"face-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"Face the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>More than 2 million refugees have arrived in the United States since the Refugee Act of 1980 was established, driven from their homelands by war, political change, and social, religious and ethnic oppression&#8230;In medium-sized and smaller metropolitan areas, refugees can have considerable impact on the local population&#8230;The leading refugee destination metro areas have shifted away from traditional immigrant gateways over the past two decades, while newer gateways are resettling proportionally more refugees.<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">-Brooking Institution Report (2006)<\/h6>\n<div id=\"attachment_5807\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5807\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5807\" title=\"The North Salina Street Corridor is a destination for immigrants coming to Syracuse.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-refugeeparad.jpg\" alt=\"The North Salina Street Corridor is a destination for immigrants coming to Syracuse.\" width=\"626\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-refugeeparad.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sif-stock-refugeeparad-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The North Salina Street Corridor is a destination for immigrants coming to Syracuse.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2012, The Onondaga Citizens League explored the refugee experience in Central New York.\u00a0 A summary of the results were published in a report called <em>The World at our Doorstep<\/em>. Some of the great recommendations included creating a Refugee Resource Center, developing a World Market Square\/Village and convening a Refugee Health Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more points\u00a0we should\u00a0consider\u00a0for new citizens\u00a0(coming from\u00a0the other side of the world\u00a0or from across the country)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let them be themselves<\/li>\n<li>Identify and magnify their strengths<\/li>\n<li>Let them know\u00a0what is going on<\/li>\n<li>Make them proud to be here<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t hinder them with obtuse rules<\/li>\n<li>Give them meaningful work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier this week at a public meeting, SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor called Syracuse a &#8220;city of opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a new kind of Syracuse story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2 million refugees have arrived in the United States since the Refugee Act of 1980 was established, driven from their homelands by war, political change, and social, religious and ethnic oppression&#8230;In medium-sized and smaller metropolitan areas, refugees can have considerable impact on the local population&#8230;The leading refugee destination metro areas have shifted away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[2524,2928,2933,2930,1263,1251,2934,2931,2932,2024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24090,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/24090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}