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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Manny Ramos

Refugees drive West Ridge’s growing Asian population

Emraan Mohamad Yakuv, a case manager at the Rohingya Cultural Center, poses for a photo during a job fair at the Rohingya Cultural Center in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 26, 2022. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times

Emraan Mohamad Yakuv remembers being hit with the frigid cold when he arrived from tropical Malaysia nearly eight years ago.

As a child, he had been among thousands of refugees who fled Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Many went to Thailand, then Malaysia. Some, years later, settled in the United States.

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