“The United States and Tennessee have always been, since the very founding of our nation, a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity for the persecuted and oppressed.”
— Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R)
The Tennessee Office for Refugees curates the Tennessee Refugee Resource Map—a constellation of 75+ nonprofits across seven Tennessee cities that provide integration services, including English classes, employment support, computer literacy classes, youth programs, and more.
This map visualizes an important fact: resettlement is a tapestry of services and service providers, woven over decades with cross-sector relationships, partnered programs, and interchanged institutional expertise.
The Trump Administration’s indefinite suspension of resettlement is pulling on those threads—and in Tennessee, we’re watching what took decades to weave unravel in days.
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