Welcoming refugees is paying off for #Cleveland (gallery)
When a series of flights brought him from Kathmandu to Cleveland in the fall of 2008, Nar Pradhan was free of a refugee camp for the first time in 17 years. He wasted not a moment.
Within weeks, the earnest 27 year old found work at an Indian restaurant and commenced the family enterprise. Later arriving brothers and sisters fanned out across a recession-weary city, stringing together part-time jobs and pooling meager savings.
In early 2011, Nar and his siblings bought Flavors of India, the North Olmsted restaurant that had hired him as a dishwasher, and added Nepali flourishes to the menu. Recently, they opened a South Asian grocery on Cleveland’s west side, continuing a striking ascent from poverty that is not uncommon for families like theirs.
A new study reveals that refugees — the world’s most desperate immigrants — tend to do well in Cleveland and often out-achieve their U.S.-born neighbors over time.
▻http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/10/welcoming_refugees_pays_off_fo.html
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