ISSUES

She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul.


The fact that the women from A.U.W. had been university students working on their undergraduate or master’s degrees back home in Afghanistan afforded them no special status at Fort McCoy. “There are very few clear, practical and durable pathways for refugee and displaced students to come to the U.S. to study and stay,” Miriam Feldblum, executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, told me. “We can and should do much more.”

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