Introduction

This project was organized by MAP (Migration to Asia Peace), a refugee human rights organization, to meet refugees in person during the COVID-19 pandemic and document their experiences. The goal is to share these stories, gathered through interviews, as widely as possible by publishing one news card (an information card) each week.

Project Overview

  • Name: Commas & Quotes (쉼표와 따옴표)
  • Organizer: MAP (Migration to Asia Peace)
  • Format: Direct interviews with refugees who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic, published as one news card per week
  • Purpose: To share the realities refugees faced during the crisis with the wider public and to bring more attention to their stories

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic was a difficult time for everyone, but refugees faced additional and particular hardships: language barriers, precarious residency status, and limited access to healthcare, all at once. Rather than reducing these experiences to statistics or formal reports, MAP designed this project to preserve them as individual voices, one person at a time.

Get Involved or Get in Touch

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