February 4, 2022
Feeling at Home: A Deliberative Conversation on Refugee Communities and the Afghan Crisis February 8, 2022, 6 to 8 p.m.
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The mass exodus of people from Afghanistan that followed the U.S. pullout and Taliban takeover in August 2021 has rekindled public awareness of refugeeism worldwide. In this deliberative conversation, we discuss the Afghan and other refugee situations along with the challenges of resettlement, issues of family separation, and the lingering multi-generational trauma that impacts those who have experienced or been touched by such upheavals. A panel of academic and community experts will offer perspectives on historic patterns, social and political issues, and religious and cultural concerns. At the heart lie basic questions: What is home? What does it mean to leave a home? What does it mean to find a new home? And how does one welcome others into their home? While our focus is on the current evacuation and resettlement of people from Afghanistan, our hope is that this conversation will heighten awareness of commonalities as well as differences among refugee communities across other ethnicities and nationalities, and perhaps encourage a path toward thinking of refugee situations as isolated incidents but as a continued pattern of migration that has resulted from the contemporary global condition.
Panelists include:
- Jenny Mincin
- Karen Garner
- Kamran Parwana
- Dan Nyaronga
- Himanee Gupta-Carlson (moderator)
- Erin Young (moderator)
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