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A volunteer from the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, a local resettlement agency, greeted him and drove him to Utica, a former manufacturing town that after many years of steady depopulation had found new life through its growing population of resettled refugees. But when the volunteer left him, Rai was alone in a cold, dark house, without any idea how to turn on the heat or lights. Seven years later, Rai is helping to teach others the ins and outs of daily life in Utica, about a quarter of whose residents are now resettled refugees.\u003Caside class=\u0022ad right most-popular-plus-ad grey_back\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv id=\u0022ad-halfpage-292552-0\u0022 class=\u0022sailthru_class_form\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/advertising-policy\u0022 class=\u0022ad-policy\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAd Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\u003Cscript \u003E\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\tfunction load_article_ads(){\n\t\t\t\tif( jQuery(\u0022#ad-halfpage-292552-0\u0022).is(\u0022:empty\u0022) ){call_ad_new(\u0027halfpage\u0027,\u0027tn_article\u0027,\u0027ad-halfpage-292552-0\u0027,\u0027rectangle_1\u0027,{\u0022tn_author\u0022:\u0022\u0027kavitha-r\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_articleid\u0022:292552,\u0022tn_ptype\u0022:\u0022article\u0022,\u0022tn_keyword\u0022:\u0022\u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027refugees\u0027, \u0027undocument\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_subject\u0022:\u0022\u0027activism\u0027, \u0027cities\u0027, \u0027class\u0027, \u0027economy\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027inequality\u0027, \u0027jobs\u0027, \u0027poverty\u0027, \u0027social-jus\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_slp\u0022:\u0022\u0022});}\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t}\t\n\t\n\t\t\tjQuery(\u0027#expand-reduce-292552\u0027).click(function(){\n\t\t\t\tif( isMobile.any() ){\n\t\t\t\t\tcall_ad_new(\u0027halfpage\u0027,\u0027tn_article\u0027,\u0027ad-halfpage-292552-0\u0027,\u0027rectangle_1\u0027,{\u0022tn_author\u0022:\u0022\u0027kavitha-r\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_articleid\u0022:292552,\u0022tn_ptype\u0022:\u0022article\u0022,\u0022tn_keyword\u0022:\u0022\u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027refugees\u0027, \u0027undocument\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_subject\u0022:\u0022\u0027activism\u0027, \u0027cities\u0027, \u0027class\u0027, \u0027economy\u0027, \u0027immigratio\u0027, \u0027inequality\u0027, \u0027jobs\u0027, \u0027poverty\u0027, \u0027social-jus\u0027\u0022,\u0022tn_slp\u0022:\u0022\u0022});\t\n\t\t\t\t}\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t});\t\n\t\t\u003C\/script\u003E \n\t\t\t\t\u003Caside class=\u0022left textaside\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022message\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003EThis article was supported by the \u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/economichardship.org\/\u0022\u003EEconomic Hardship Reporting Project\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor 18 years, Rai lived in a camp in Nepal, where he and thousands of other Nepali speakers had languished in stateless limbo after Bhutan stripped them of their citizenship and expelled them in the mid-1990s. Today, he has a cozy apartment in a house that he shares with relatives who followed him to the United States. His parents, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and a slew of US-born children all live within a few blocks of each other. For the past six years, he\u2019s worked at the nearby Chobani yogurt factory. His home serves as a hub for religious holidays and family events. When I visited him in August, signs of past celebrations were all around\u2014bunches of silk flowers, paper marigold garlands, and streamers from his son\u2019s first birthday.\n\u003Cp\u003EMost importantly, he has US citizenship at a time when the Trump administration has packed away the welcome mat for refugees. In 2011, Rai was one of more than 50,000 refugees who were admitted to this country. This year, the United States will resettle just 22,000, according to the International Rescue Committee. \u201cOur life is really nameless and homeless when I was living in the refugee camp,\u201d Rai told me, trying to convey what it was like to be stateless. The United States \u201cgave us citizen[ship]. I don\u2019t have to worry for my name anymore.\u201d Rai no longer feels invisible; he is a man with a place in the world.\n\u003Cp\u003EBut his concerns didn\u2019t end once he received his US passport. As the eldest son and first in his family to come to the United States, Rai feels responsible for his relatives. He cares for three disabled family members who live together in a nearby apartment\u2014his wheelchair-bound grandmother, his physically disabled grandfather, and his mentally disabled uncle. He found them new apartments when the resettlement agency placed them in an unsafe house without wheelchair accessibility, when their floorboards were infested with insects, and when their pipes burst. He accompanies them to doctors\u2019 appointments, and arranges for his sisters to receive funding to provide in-home care. 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The case was finally settled in July 2016, granting her permission to enroll in high school for the 2017\u201318 year. 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Many of those in his family who can work have to contend with the physical and social impacts of their prolonged stay in a refugee camp. His mother, who ran a brutally demanding business harvesting, bundling, and transporting bamboo to sell to fellow refugees in the camp, told me, \u201cBefore there was lots of working, now there are knee problems and joint problems.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003EHe is, in essence, a caseworker for nine people\u2014no small task for a young man working a $10-an-hour factory job. He is grateful for what he has, but he wants a better life for himself and his wife and son. He wants to go to school part-time and start a business. He has the energy, creativity, and experience. As an undocumented refugee in Nepal, he started half a dozen ventures to keep his family fed, including sourcing betel nut from mountain villages and putting together construction crews to work as contractors across the Indian border in Sikkim. 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In the wake of adversity and trauma, refugees are quick to grasp where the cursory formal support systems leave off, and learn to take care of themselves and each other. In fact, a growing number of once-declining towns like Utica are looking to refugees to take care of them too, revitalizing their once blighted neighborhoods and starting businesses. But this work often falls on the shoulders of a few healthy, resourceful, English-speaking individuals, and\u2014without support from longer-standing, better-positioned communities\u2014the strain can prove too great. Like all new arrivals, refugees are adept at providing a safety net for themselves, but a safety net is only as strong as the density of its webbing and thickness of its rope. To stay effective, it will also require regular reinforcement and repair.\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022wpsdc-drop-cap\u0022\u003EW\u003C\/span\u003Ehile many Bhutanese Nepalis have been resettled in northern European countries that funnel arrivals into mandatory language and cultural-education programs and provides much more generous social services than they might find here, Rai told me it\u2019s better in the United States, where \u201cI can be independent, I can do for myself.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003ERai is a believer in what those in the refugee-resettlement field call the bootstrap model. 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Many humanitarian immigrants, like asylum seekers or trafficking victims, don\u2019t even get this support, and struggle with poverty, often facing homelessness or finding income only in low-wage, off-the-books gigs. Once they are granted asylum or immigration relief, which can take a decade or more, then they are eligible for short-term support.\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat support these refugees should have and from whom it should come are central questions for policy-makers. Nearly all scholars and resettlement experts agree that refugees and host countries benefit more from long-term transitional models of integration than from the interim-support models like in the United States. Five countries\u2014the UK, Spain, Argentina, Ireland, and New Zealand\u2014have endorsed a pilot version of Canada\u2019s community-based refugee sponsorship model, which places refugees within networks of sponsors who help integrate them into their new homes over the long term. 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As recently as 2014, President Barack Obama requested guidance on how best to create welcoming communities for refugees. The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which has assisted in resettlement for nearly 70 years, wrote, \u201cThe United States is fortunate that many elements of a positive immigrant integration strategy are already in place in our society, compared to other nations where economic opportunities are closed off, anti-immigrant hostility is rampant, and immigrant communities are isolated.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo years later, the United States increasingly resembles those \u201cother nations\u201d that LIRS described. Trump has made it a state priority to reduce immigration, shrink existing immigrant communities, and slash the funding to support them.\n\u003Cp\u003ESince coming into office, Trump has suspended refugee resettlement from certain predominantly Muslim countries, canceled the temporary protective status for more than 300,000 refugees from Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Nepal, and Honduras, and separated children from their parents as part of a zero-tolerance policy toward unauthorized immigration. Immigrant-rights activists say they are now being targeted for deportation. The president launched a task force to strip citizenship from naturalized citizens whose applications contained errors or discrepancies, and he has recently announced that it would cap refugee resettlement in the coming year at 30,000\u2014the lowest ceiling since the program started in 1980. To top it off, his administration said it plans to narrow the path to permanent residence or citizenship for legal immigrants who have ever used public benefits, like children\u2019s health insurance or food stamps.\n\u003Cp\u003EThese policies foster an atmosphere of terror intended to drive immigrant communities into silence or out of the country. Paralyzed with fear and reacting to one crisis after another, immigrant community networks are unable to be the source of support and resilience they once were. \u201cThere are so many issues, attacks on all sides that it\u2019s difficult for communities to rally around the most vulnerable,\u201d said Claire Thomas, director of New York Law School\u2019s Asylum Clinic. Migration advocates and resettlement experts across the country argue that these policies have had a chilling effect on legal immigrants, including refugees and asylees, deterring many from applying for benefits they need and qualify for.\n\u003Cp\u003ERai told me that despite Trump-era policies he still has hope for his life here in the United States. Recent ICE raids in Utica and nearby Rome seem to be affecting undocumented communities but not refugees, he said. Still, in the past, he and other Bhutanese Nepali refugees in Utica had built bridges to other immigrant groups in other cities; now his community is increasingly sticking to itself. This means more pressure and less support: \u201cWhen I am in alone, questions come in my head,\u201d Rai said. \u201cWhatever I want to do, I cannot do.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003EThis stress takes a toll. Between 2009 and 2012, 16 Bhutanese Nepali refugees in the United States committed suicide, and, although none of these happened in Utica, the aftershocks of these deaths reverberated throughout the tight-knit Bhutanese Nepali communities nationwide. Many of the Bhutanese Nepali refugees in Utica I spoke to say they take medication for depression and anxiety.\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022wpsdc-drop-cap\u0022\u003ES\u003C\/span\u003Etam and her colleague Chris Sunderlin, executive director of MUCC, pointed out that there are actually a number of great programs and resources available to help new arrivals integrate into US society, but that many refugees have limited ability to access them. MUCC in fact grew out of the need that they and others identified in their roles as volunteers at the Mohawk Valley Resource Center, the area\u2019s resettlement agency. MUCC has created a space for the kind of cross-cultural integration and welcoming that is rare in Trump\u2019s America. An airy building with a kitchen, raised-bed garden, and bench-lined porch, MUCC has become a gathering place for refugee teens from nearly two dozen ethnic backgrounds. Here, a Karen K-pop dance group might work out new moves, while a local ROTC troop conducts flag drills, while a volunteer tutors Somali Bantu students, while a scrum of teens cooks a multiethnic feast to be served on long tables for whomever is around that day. 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In a political climate that has darkened for immigrants and refugees, refugee-resettlement specialists are looking to partnerships with community organizations that can provide the lasting transitional support that works, and that help alleviate the pressures someone like Rai is forced to carry on their own.\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Refuge Resettlement offers a range of grants designed to support grassroots initiatives, like funding suicide prevention in the Bhutanese Nepali community or liaison officers to work with local police to understand and prevent violent crimes against refugees. In Utica, partnerships between locals and refugees have flourished; there\u2019s a Women\u2019s English conversation group for Sudanese women, and an informal tutoring program for high-school students from different communities. But many of these measures are underfunded and could benefit from federal funding that is drying up as refugee numbers are capped and government agencies dedicated to supporting refugees are gutted.\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite Utica\u2019s openness to refugees, over the last year, the Bhutanese Nepali community has been getting smaller. Some 30 families have packed up and moved to Ohio, cutting the town\u2019s Nepali-speaking population in half.\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019re leaving to take advantage of larger communities in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. The rent in Utica is lower than in Ohio, and the jobs there are no better than in northern New York\u2014processing meat instead of packaging yogurt or cleaning hotels instead of casinos. Dal, Rai\u2019s mother\u2019s brother in law, explained, \u201cIn America, job and government benefit is the priority, then community. Our people always choose community first.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003ERai elaborated that in Ohio there are more Bhutanese Nepalis to care for the children and elderly, and there are Nepali-language interpreters who can help with the citizenship process. The social network is larger, providing the best pathway to integration, whether the immigrants are skilled H1B visa holders, resettled refugees, or asylees.\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, immigrant networks can\u2019t do it all. Driven into the shadows to avoid being detained or deported, vulnerable immigrants often live in crowded makeshift dorms, work in sweatshops, and must pay off loans from predatory loan sharks\u2014all in their own communities. But if we could stop inflicting pain on immigrant communities, and instead form viable partnerships with grassroots organizations, we might be on our way to a more humane, comprehensive system of long-term integration for refugees and asylum seekers.\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat might such a system look like? For now, immigration-court backlogs may be unavoidable, but it would be both less costly and more humane to provide temporary work visas to those who pass an initial credible-fear test than to force asylum seekers into homelessness and poverty. In New York, where asylum laws are more generous than in other states, asylum seekers have a right to work if their cases have been pending in court for 150 days or more, but this lengthy waiting period is unnecessary.\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile young people in immigrant communities benefit from the integrating aspects of school, older refugees often struggle with isolation. Culturally sensitive senior community centers, like those founded by earlier arrivals in the Chinese and Indian communities, could alleviate this. Mosques have been an invaluable support to Syrian refugees, and churches and synagogues have provided interim housing to asylum seekers on an ad hoc basis. Financial assistance and home-sharing programs, in which newer arrivals at risk of homelessness might find temporary placement with a community member who shares their native language or diet, could greatly benefit nonreligious people or members of non-congregational religions.\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the last century, polls have \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/11\/19\/u-s-public-seldom-has-welcomed-refugees-into-country\/\u0022\u003Econsistently shown high rates of public opposition\u003C\/a\u003E to admitting large numbers of refugees. At the same time, the US public includes large and long-standing immigrant communities whose vast networks can support new arrivals where the government is unable or unwilling to do so. These networks ought to be supported and funded rather than dismantled and driven into hiding. Time and again, studies show that communities are not just sources of resilience and support for their own but also engines of economic activity. 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