From stateless to citizen

The World

There’s a large population of Rohingya refugees in Chicago. Nasir Zakaria is the founder of the Rohingya Cultural Center in the city. He’s Rohingya himself and had to flee his native Myanmar to the US where he started the refugee center. Once stateless, he recently gained US citizenship. Host Carol Hills speaks with The World’s Tania Karas about what this means.

Sign up for our daily newsletter

Sign up for The Top of the World, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.