For refugees from Burma, hope of better life in US turns into extreme poverty, isolation
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Refugees who have fled Burma to live in Oakland, Calif., are at risk of becoming a permanent, poverty-stricken underclass warns a new report released today by researchers at San Francisco State University and the Burma Refugee Family Network (BRFN). The report found that almost 60 percent of Oakland's refugees from Burma are living in extreme poverty.