{"id":72661,"date":"2025-06-27T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/27\/refugees-midwest-cities-immigration"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:00:55","slug":"how-refugees-have-helped-save-these-midwestern-cities-thats-really-something-we-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72661","title":{"rendered":"How refugees have helped save these midwestern cities: \u2018That\u2019s really something we celebrate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformed<\/p>\n<p>At a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Ahiska, or Meskhetian, Turk community who came to the US as a refugee from western Russia in 2005, Akhmedova opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/gunash-s-mediterranean-cusine-dayton\">Gunash\u2019s Mediterranean Cusine<\/a> two years ago on the site of a converted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metroparks.org\/places-to-go\/2nd-street-market\/\">freight house<\/a> alongside other international food vendors in a formerly industrial corner of Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/27\/refugees-midwest-cities-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In places like Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, blighted neighborhoods and economies have been transformedAt a time in life when many are winding down, Gunash Akhmedova, aged 65, fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening her first business.A member of the A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3244,82,3352,419,61,554,1083,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-indiana","category-myanmar","category-ohio","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72661\/revisions\/72662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}