{"id":321,"date":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-political-science\/elizaveta-bekmanis\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:12:22","slug":"elizaveta-bekmanis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/studentopportunities\/chuck-green-fellowship\/past\/2014-2\/elizaveta-bekmanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizaveta Bekmanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elizaveta Bekmanis\u20142014 Fellow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/589\/2014\/09\/bekmanis.jpg\" alt=\"Elizaveta Bekmanis\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Year: Class of 2016<br>Major: Political Science &amp; International Studies <br>Organization: International Institute of Minnesota<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Chuck Green Fellow at the International Institute of Minnesota, I had the privilege of working in refugee resettlement and conducting research at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center. My decision to carry out a summer project related to immigration was rooted primarily in my own experience growing up as a Russian immigrant in Germany, but I had also become increasingly interested in immigration academically at Macalester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Institute of Minnesota is a voluntary agency that provides a variety of services to immigrants in the Twin Cities. Their refugee resettlement office in particular cooperates with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the Department of State and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants to resettle refugees to the Twin Cities Area. During my Chuck Green Project, my days were typically split between assisting refugee resettlement case managers with various tasks related to the arrival of new refugees in Minnesota, and working in the archives of the Immigration History Research Center to reconstruct narratives of refugees resettled by the International Institute since the aftermath of World War II. I especially enjoyed working on family reunification applications and helping to create a body of research that will can be expanded and used for the Institute\u2019s 100th anniversary celebrations in 2018\/2019.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizaveta Bekmanis\u20142014 Fellow Year: Class of 2016Major: Political Science &amp; International Studies Organization: International Institute of Minnesota As a Chuck Green Fellow at the International Institute of Minnesota, I had the privilege of working in refugee resettlement and conducting research at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center. My decision to carry out a [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/1857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/political-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}