The Tahirih Justice Center’s Kursten Phelps and Archi Pyati provide guidance on speaking with clients who have suffered trauma, with specific insights on interviewing detained survivors.
Trauma-Informed Interviewing Techniques, by Tahirih from Immigration Justice Campaign on Vimeo.
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Living in India as a divorced single mother was very hard. My abusive first husband abandoned my daughter and I when she was very young and never provided any support. […]
I came to the U.S. in the winter of 2006. Life back home in Mexico was tough for me and my family. I dreamt of going to college and graduating but with my family’s economic status, that dream was too costly and impossible.
At least I was able to graduate high school and that is something I am proud of since I was also working at the time to help my family. I was always looking for an opportunity to have a better life as a young woman.
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