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...easiest part of it all was deciding where in the U.S. they would settle down. "From the beginning, our destination was Detroit," says Aljanaby. (See TIME's Detroit Blog...
...Detroit may be the poster child for urban flight, but there's one group that still regards it as a city of hope: Iraqi refugees. Like previous waves of Arabs fleeing violence and political upheaval - or merely seeking new economic opportunity - thousands of Iraqis have been arriving in the Detroit metropolitan area since 2007, when the Bush Administration began accepting refugees from Iraq. (See TIME's photo-essay "Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline...
...once they've got their bearings, many Iraqis placed elsewhere in the country make a beeline for Detroit. Some, like the Aljanabys, hook up with relatives: in a family-oriented culture, they can depend on the kindness of distant cousins for a roof over their head, food and help in finding jobs. Since those relatives are often themselves former refugees, they empathize with the newcomers...
...even those who don't have family connections to Detroit are drawn there by the comforting presence of a large Arab-American community. A third of Dearborn's 100,000 residents are of Middle Eastern origin; they trace their ancestry to over a dozen Arab nations, but the largest groups are Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi-Chaldean. In areas like the Southend and eastern Dearborn, the language you're most likely to hear in the streets is Arabic. There are mosques, grocery stores that sell Arabic goods and restaurants that serve Arabic food. Two-thirds of all schoolkids are of Arab...
...pictures of the remains of Detroit...