The double-edged sword of empathy: Two migrant-serving organizations in south texas
Sobre M.; Ehmer E.
2021
Journal of Intercultural Communication
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While Texas has long led other US American states in number of refugees resettled, anti-migrant rhetoric globally and locally creates challenges for nonprofit organizations serving refugees and asylum seekers. This paper represents a portion of an ongoing project focusing on the needs and scope of two organizations serving migrants in San Antonio, Texas: a nonprofit focusing on legal and educational resources for migrants, and a liberal arts university’s campus coalition assisting migrants in South Texas. The project reported on here is ongoing. This paper only reports on the work with these organizations and the development and early stages of interventions to assist employees and volunteers in intercultural communication, community outreach, and post-secondary trauma. © 2021, Immigrant Institutet. All rights reserved.
Intercultural communication; Intercultural training; Migrants; Post-secondary trauma; Refugees; Social justice advocacy
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