The Realignment 547 | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah: The Post-Realignment Politics of Refugee Policy and Immigration Reform
Apr 18, 2025
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Personal Refugee Journey
- Krish O'Mara Vignarajah shares her refugee family story from Sri Lanka to the US via teacher recruitment in Nigeria and Texas.
- This personal history shapes her leadership at Global Refuge, a major faith-based immigration nonprofit.
Complex Modern Displacement
- The nature of displacement today is messier, larger scale, and caused by violent nonstate actors and climate disasters.
- This complexity drives mixed migration motivations making simple narratives ineffective.
Refugee System Integrity
- Refugee resettlement involves extreme vetting and only 1% globally get this opportunity.
- Legal distinctions between refugees and asylum seekers matter to maintaining integrity of the system.