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Established in 2015, the Central Vermont Refugee Action Network, Inc. (CVRAN) is a Board-governed, registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Montpelier and dedicated to making our communities welcoming safe places for New Vermonters from countries around the world to visit, work, and live in.
One of the most active committees of CVRAN is the Asylum Seekers Assistance Network, which aims to support individuals who have fled their home countries based on fear of persecution and are seeking international protection. CVRAN also supports refugees, who were often in refugee camps for many years and suffered from persecution, violence, social and political instability, deprivation, and homelessness before being allowed to enter the United States. Another important group of new Vermonters CVRAN supports is migrant farm workers who have left their permanent homes to work on dairy farms, usually for years at a time.
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- Immigration in the News, July 2021
July 29, 2021 - Notes in Remembrance of Lou Cherry
June 28, 2021 - Montpelier Teenager Makes Substantial Donation To Help Asylum Seekers in Montpelier
June 5, 2021
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This highly successful company makes a point of hiring newcomers to the U.S. This excerpt from the article is of special interest: "Twincraft has a reputation for hiring refugees and immigrants, though the Trump presidency and the pandemic have slowed the influx of workers not born in the United States. ![]()
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“It’s nearly 25 percent new Americans,” Asch said, “but the valve has been turned down from the federal government, so we don’t have a lot of new Americans coming in.”![]()
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Before the pandemic, the company offered English lessons, Asch said. She predicts that those classes will probably resume.![]()
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One way Twincraft tries to appeal to refugees and immigrants, Asch says, is by offering one floating holiday so people can choose a holiday in line with their traditions.
Amid recruiting woes, one Vermont manufacturer is having no problems - VTDigger
vtdigger.org
Many Vermont manufacturers report they’re having a hard time finding employees. Twincraft Skincare, with factories in Winooski and Essex, is not.
vtdigger.org/2021/07/25/farm-workforce-act-a-path-to-citizenship-for-undocumented-farmworkers-or-...
vtdigger.org
The federal legislation would grant legal status to undocumented farmworkers and offer a path to citizenship, but Vermont organizations say it would limit farmworkers’ rights to unionization and legalization and trap them in economic vulnerability.
Nationwide, there are about 1,300,000 immigrants awaiting their hearings. Most of CVRAN's asylum-seeing guests will have their cases heard in Boston, where the backlog is over 55,000, and the average wait for a hearing is 1704 days. The first guests that CVRAN welcomed have been waiting in Central Vermont for over two years, with a court date in February 2022. trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/
BABYLON: Journeys of Refugees | Epsilon Spires
www.epsilonspires.org
Vermont premiere of the filmed production of BABYLON: Journeys of Refugees by Sandglass Theater. A moving and action-packed multimedia experience that looks at the relationship of refugees to their homelands, lost and new, and the conflicts that exist within the countries to which they flee.