The Kenan Institute for Ethics is piloting a multi-site community-based research project in eastern Nepal and Durham exploring the effects of resettlement upon Bhutanese refugees.

Durham is one of many communities nationwide that will take in several thousand Bhutanese refugees over the next five years as they are resettled by the U.S. government after spending 18 years in camps in Eastern Nepal. The project was inspired by a semester-long faculty/student working group on refugees led by our first practitioner-in-residence, Fiona Terry.

The project is directed by Institute Associate Director Suzanne Shanahan, and it emerged from a class she taught in Spring 2010 with undergraduate and graduates interested in ethical and health-related issues surrounding refugee resettlement.

The project consists of

• a  Refugee Working Group and
• Community-Based Projects in Durham and Nepal

Learn more about the project, initial findings, and priorities going forward in the Fall 2010 issue of GIST from the Mill.