Post-Industrial City: Refugee and Manal Alawsaj

post-industrial city: But now, Utica is beset with new anxiety in the age of Trump, according to The Chronicle Herald. The president's order restricting refugees and travel from certain Muslim countries has immigrants in Utica feeling uncertain about their place here. An influx of thousands of refugees from around the world over the past few decades is credited with injecting new energy and optimism into this faded post-industrial city of 62,000. Some also worry they will not be able to bring over family members fleeing war zones and refugee camps. It makes me terrified. There's one saying my mom used to tell me in camp in Iraq A refugee will always be a refugee, said 18-year-old Manal Alawsaj, a Palestinian who just became a citizen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.