Durana Saydee is a first-year transfer student majoring in sociology at UCLA. Through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, she will be working with Dr. S. Michael Gaddis on an individual research project. Her research will be focusing on the immigrant and refugee experience post-initial resettlement in the United States. More specifically, she will be exploring the divide between refugees and immigrants who move out of ethnically and religiously homogenous neighborhoods they had initially been resettled into, and those who stagnate and remain in low-income communities for decades. She hopes to further this research during graduate school and eventually influence resettlement policy reform. Aside from working on her research, she spends her time working as the assistant project coordinator for the Mentors for Academic and Peer Support organization and actively coordinating advocacy events for the Muslim Students Association on UCLA’s campus. She enjoys reading scholarly papers and books on Muslim legal tradition, the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities, and how/why nations develop differently. Post-grad school, she would like to conduct research on the topics of the papers and books mentioned above.