Workbook
For Refugees Building New Lives
The Country You Left, the Country You're In, and the Family Caught Between
You did not leave everything. This workbook helps you document what you brought.
For refugees and asylum seekers — and the family members who made that journey with them — who want to document what their identity means beyond the displacement story.
The Name It First Experience
You carried a culture, a family, and a language under conditions of survival. The identity resources that exist for refugees focus on trauma, resettlement logistics, or policy. Almost none ask: who are you? What did you bring? What are you building? Your Refugee Family Identity Document answers those questions on your terms. The output is not a refugee story. It is your family's story — in your words.
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Sample questions
- What does it mean to have rebuilt your life in a new country after being forced to leave everything — and what from before did your family work hardest to preserve?
- What did you bring with you — culturally, spiritually, linguistically — and what has your family managed to keep alive?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about where your family came from, what forced you to leave, and what you built in its place?
Research basis
Grounded in Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies, Berry (1997) acculturation under forced migration, Malkki (1995) purity and exile frameworks, and Herman (1992) trauma and identity recovery frameworks applied to refugee experience.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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