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Florida International University Search March 16, 2021 at 3:42pm Undocumented immigrants who have children born in the United States live with a particular fear: What will happen if they are deported, and their children are left alone in this country? “How do parents deal with this?” wondered Maryam Rafieifar, a doctoral student in social welfare at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. “What steps do they take to ensure their children’s safety?” Rafieifar wanted to find out. Even when their parents are not deported, many children are impacted by the precarious situation. For example, parents’ fears of being found out might stop them from seeking medical care for themselves or their dependents and keep them from taking advantage of state or federal food and other programs for which their U.S.-born children qualify. ....
Florida International University Search Newly graduated Stempel Ph.D. takes on the world as a professor and researcher dedicated to bettering the lives of refugees Mitra Naseh grew up in Iran and had a first-hand view of what those fleeing neighboring war-torn Afghanistan experienced January 20, 2021 at 10:22am Mitra Naseh this month won a national award for a dissertation that presents “a multidimensional model for understanding poverty among refugees.” But the 2020 graduate of the Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work has had little time to celebrate the good news. She’s too busy. The native of Iran, who earned a bachelor’s in computer science engineering and a master’s in urban planning and development in her homeland before arriving at FIU in 2015, recently completed her first semester as an assistant professor in the school of social work at Portland State University. She is also reworking her dissertation into a series of three arti ....