NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2006: Still Photography Winners: Cliff Edom's "New America Award"

1st Place: The Town That Loves Refugees : A small American town, Asian freedom fighters, Somali ‘slaves’ and survivors of the ‘killing fields’; < 1 ... 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 24 >; A Bosnian refugee ponders her future. Utica’s size has stabilized at around 65,000 and 10,000 of these residents — nearly one in six — are refugees. That is a massive concentration of uprooted peoples from all corners of the globe transplanted to one small place. Their numbers are not only impressive, but also their diversity. They come from around 30 countries and vastly different backgrounds. There are Vietnamese restaurants, Russian neighborhood stores, Bosnian hairdressing salons and coffee shops, a large Pentecostal church built by refugees from the former Soviet Union, mosques and temples. Thirty-one languages are spoken in city schools. The local newspaper runs a weekly column in Bosnian. A hospital has a website devoted to cultural diversity.

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