How Tulsa Is Reconnecting Immigrants and Refugees to High-Skill Careers
Zapata went back to school, earning a master’s degree in organizational dynamics and a Ph.D in human development and family science from universities in Oklahoma. “One of the things that happens as an immigrant is you often do not know what you do not know,” she says. The systems in the U.S. may be very different from a similar system in an immigrant’s country of origin. Starting to figure out how to navigate the systems such as health, education and finance may be a challenge, on top of possibly having a language or other barrier. “People who grew up here, it may be different, beca...
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