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From Fear to Future: Strengthening Community for Refugees

Fear is rarely loud. Most of the time it shows up as careful language, raised walls, and small decisions that add up. A landlord who “doesn’t know” whether they can rent to a refugee family. A school staff member who hesitates to push for extra language support. A neighbor who worries about safety but cannot name what safety would actually look like in practice. I have seen how quickly that fear hardens when people treat refugees as a problem to manage rather than neighb