Funded by the CU Engage Community-Based Research Graduate Research Fellowship, this research project (2017-2018) was a collaboration with Project Worthmore, an Aurora-based refugee service nonprofit. Using feminist and community-based methods of interview, survey, and theatre of the oppressed, data highlighted resettled Rohingya and Myanmar Muslim experiences of resettlement in Aurora, Colorado. Focusing on women workers within and outside the home, findings emphasize the role of nonprofit resettlement organizations in slotting refugee women into low-waged, radicalized jobs in industrial manufacturing.

To the left, women act out experiences of oppression in the workplace.