REFUGEES + DIVERSITY INDEX

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POSITION PAPERS

Why Montagnards? What our treatment of this refugee community says about us

Ethnic Community Based Organizations: The mission of self-help groups goes far beyond refugee resetttlement

Technology Desert: Those who could benefit most from technology lose out

Lay Community Health Team: Montagnard women are an unrecognized source of community expertise

White Paper to the Bryan Foundation: Speeding Refugee Employment   (PDF)

COMMUNITY BUILDING 

Welcome Center: Stakeholders’ Accountability Map

The Refugee Mess: Montagnard World Concept Map

Conflict resolution and community building between Nepalis and Bhutanese

Building strong ethnic communities is consistent with building a creative class

Open Space meeting: Recommended changes to assisting refugees

US Citizenship 100 questions, Rhade version (cover) (preface) (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

US Citizenship 20 questions, Rhade version (cover) (preface) (questions)

Largest Montagnard food store: Photo documentation

Largest Montagnard food store: Press release and poster

Largest Montagnard food store: Read the newspaper story  

Montagnard Reporters at Mosaic Festival  

HEALTH 

Anatomy of Suffering: Economics of Montagnard Food Choices in America
Making Sure Moms Have Coverage: Visual checklist of qualifying documents for indigent healthcare

Community blood pressure clinics at Montagnard churches

High Sodium Products: Culturally appropriate teaching material for the Montagnard community

Creation of a Refugee Lay Community Health Team

Collaborative Process: Stakeholders in the lay community health team

Diet, food and health concept map: Refugee food insecurity

Design and American assumptions in refugee education

Visual guide to food amounts

Recipe Example and Food Technique: How to prepare banh canh
Food availability: H Bec and her garden  

ESOL-coordinated health messages and lessons

INFORMATION

Proposal for a Montagnard newspaper and other media

Proposal for Montagnard translation standards (download PDF)

CENSUS

2010 Census Campaign: Let's Count All Montagnards 

2010 Census Slogan: Check “Other Asian”, Write “Montagnard”   

Why does counting the Montagnard population matter?

Census 2010 video and text translations (Rhade, Bunong, Jarai, Koho)

Multilingual census brochure

Greensboro is Brown: No longer a white-majority city 

CULTURE

Mondega at UNCSA 
Traditional Musicians at UNCSA
Montagnard Food at UNCSA: Spring Roll recipe (importance of food to life stories) 
Kubler and the Refugee Experience  

Why Culture Matters to a Newcomers’ Welcome Center

Weatherspoon Dega, Dega Weatherspoon art show

DMA-Dega: A Spring 2011 project with UNC School of the Arts

Backstrap Weavers Web site

Weaving as a Language Medium

Ju Nie at the Green Hill Center Winter Show 

Where's a Good Montagnard Restaurant?

A rehearsal of cing (gong) players before the Dega Weatherspoon event

A 1939 Rhade Primer

A Vietnam War-era Bunong phrase book

Chram's drawings

MDA tee-shirt 

FOOD  + AGRICULTURE 

Refugees have green skills we’re not using

Coffee shop thanks MDA ESOL students

DATS 2010: World Food in the Piedmont, a panel discussion on food and diversity

DATS 2010 MashUp, a collaborative cooking project

MDA helps Dunleith Community Garden

Nepalis learn English while training in a professional kitchen

MDA ESOL students learn English while prepping a garden

Montagnard Urban Farm: Photo Documentation