Far From Being a Burden, Research Suggests Refugees Come With Benefits [UnDark.org]

Samantha Sangenito 5/4/174:00 AM

WHEN WAR HIT close to home, Veronica Mesiko Simon grabbed a few dishes and a bundle of clothes. With a load on her head, six kids and a mother in tow, she ran for the Ugandan border, six miles away from her home in South Sudan. And just like that, everything changed. Simon and her family became refugees.

[For more of this story, written by Karen J. Coates, go to https://undark.org/article/ref...benefit-their-hosts/]

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