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The Global Philadelphia Association would like to offer our deepest sympathies and condolences to all who have been affected by the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. GPA is committed to uplifting our city's diverse communities and sharing resources in times of need.

If you have additional community organizations, relief efforts that need support, or information to share, please share by sending an email here.

The Global Interdependence Center is returning to Cuba! We will be working once again with Cuba Educational Travel (CET), a leader in business and policy travel to Cuba, to assist in facilitating GIC’s Delegation to Havana departing Sunday, January 8, returning Thursday, January 12, 2023.

The Museum of the American Revolution’s Citizenship Initiative supports Philadelphia’s growing immigrant population pursuing American citizenship by helping these individuals prepare for the United States naturalization test. We welcome all immigrants and refugees to participate in our free citizenship classes.

This WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources is an Internet directory of over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of information and analysis in many international and global studies topics.

“Where can I go for shelter?”, “Where can I get my next meal?”, “How can I take care of my mental health?”, “Where can I find social support?” – these are the lifesaving questions that the AsylumConnect catalog is designed to answer. This high-impact tech product allows LGBTQ asylum seekers to access providers specializing in these wraparound services in one convenient, online location.

Helpful links provided by Health Insurance Marketplace regarding immigration families and the Affordable Care Act:

The Immigration and Migration section of the Philadelphia Encyclopedia contains a number of valuable articles describing the different waves of immigration and groups of immigrants that have come to the area throughout the years.

http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/category/immigration-and-migration/ 

People of African descent have migrated to Philadelphia since the seventeenth century. First arriving in bondage, either directly from Africa or by way of the Caribbean, they soon developed a small but robust community that grew throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although African Americans faced employment discrimination, disfranchisement, and periodic race riots in the 1800s, the community attracted tens of thousands of people during World War I’s Great Migration. Drawn by the promise of jobs during the two world wars, Philadelphia’s African Americans created one of the largest black communities in the urban North in the twentieth century. Deindustrialization and suburbanization from the post-World War II period to the early 2000s contributed to rising rates of poverty, racial tensions, and disinvestment in black neighborhoods, but the black community continued to attract new migrants.

wH2O is an online, open-access academic journal for women and water issues around the world. Access issues of this interdisciplinary, globally-minded journal here.