The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for resettled refugees in the U.S. and exposed underlying vulnerabilities that particularly impact refugee women and children, as well as the organizations that work to support them. The authors examine the difficulties facing refugees in the U.S. and offer policy recommendations that may help them.
This brief is part of a series on the impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable families. The other reports focus on low-income mothers; undocumented immigrants in the United States; and the effects of parental stress on the developing brains of children.
July 9, 2020, 10:47 a.m.
Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology at Rice University, where she is also the director of the Urban Health Program at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research and a Rice scholar at the Baker Institute. Her …
Zeinab Bakhiet is a research project manager for the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences, where she carries out research in child and community health policy. Her work has included managing a community research team, overseeing data collection, and …
