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for kindness shown by the
hospital staff. But fear of the
disease, concern for her
mother and the burden of car-
ing for her, in addition to the
strain of resettlement, are
weighing heavily on Inna.
After the surgery, Inna
decided to bring her mother
home. Outside of the initial
screening, which has Russian-
speaking volunteers, there
was a language barrier bet-
ween hospital staff and
Shapiro, who speaks no
English. It also was difficult
at first to go back and forth to
the hospital since the Alexan-
drovs did not have a car. Their
friends in Ann Arbor helped
them get one.
The Alexandrovs' friends
from before they arrived in
Detroit and others they found
since coming have made their
first few months here a little
easier. They recently
celebrated Shabbat with an
Orthodox family in their
apartment building, and Inna
remembered that friends
from her university days are
living in Michigan. She decid-
ed to try to locate them. Much
to her delight, she found their
names in a local telephone
book and called. The Alexan-
drovs spent their first
American Thanksgiving with
old friends, eating turkey and
reminiscing. Inna wryly drew
a parallel from history. "On
Thanksgiving day, we were
there as newcomers, instead
of pilgrims!"
Contact with the older,
more established Soviet
emigre community has been
limited. That is due to a lack
of a formal network to receive
the newcomers and no socio-
cultural predisposition
among the transplanted
Soviets to help strangers, of-
ficials working with the im-
migrants say. As one put it,
voluntarism is not part of the
Soviet experience, though the
Soviets will bend over
backward to help family and
friends.
Elaine Zaks, JFS Resettle-
ment Services supervisor,
believes the Soviet attitude
will change with the new in-
flux of immigrants. "Bridges
will be built between old ways
and new," she says. "We'll see
increasing evidence of that in
the months to come."
The Alexandrovs' family
unit is also growing. Inna's
niece, husband and their two
children arrived last
December. Her sister, Klara
Yurditsky, 60, and brother-in-
law Benjamin settled in Oak
Park last February with their
daughter Eugena.
Before entering the United
States, the Yurditskys spent
five months in a Rome tran-
sition center in the definition
of refugee status. "It used to
be a six-week process total:
Moscow-Vienna-Rome the
U.S.," Zaks says. "But that's
all done with. History."
Zaks explains that the
State Department has been
swamped with requests for
refugee status; potential
refugees are now being asked
to show evidence of persecu-
tion in their visa applications.
Yet another more political-
ly sensitive reason exists for
the change, Zaks says. Now
that relations between the
United States and the Soviet
Union have warmed, the
American government is
reluctant to treat all emigres
as persecuted. The result is
that families are being
broken up, with some forced
Simona Alexandrov:
`Here, it's what you can do for
the company.
to stay in Rome and wait for
admission to the United
States under immigrant
status, which can take years.
The pipeline is open wider
than it used to be. Some 150
Soviet emigres resettled in
Detroit last year. But emigra-
tion has stepped up; Zaks says
the number of immigrants is
already way ahead of last
year's figures. She worries
about finding adequate hous-
ing. "We're approaching a
housing crunch. Now we're
able to find affordable apart-
ments in Southfield and Oak
Park. But if the numbers con-
tinue at the current pace, we
won't be able to keep up.
We're confined to housing in
a certain price range. And if
you come in as an immigrant
(not a refugee), the federal
government doesn't con-
tribute money to your
assistance."
The Alexandrovs have
found the job market here is
much different than in the
Soviet Union, where everyone
is employed, they say. In the
United States, the Alexan-
drovs are finding that hiring
is based on qualifications, not
quotas. "The (Soviet) govern-
ment has a listed percentage
of who can be employed in an
institution," Felix says. Of-
ficials "would look at your (in-