Migrant and Refugee Rights in Massachusetts from a Journalist’s Perspective
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration Seminar:
Migrant and Refugee Rights in Massachusetts from a Journalist’s Perspective
Date and Time: Thursday, September 19, 2024 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET
Location: Hybrid- CGIS Knafel, K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room), 1737 Cambridge St. & online
Lunch will be available for those attending in-person, advance sign-up is appreciated.
Zoom attendees can register here.
A dialogue between journalist Cristela Guerra, Senior Arts & Culture Reporter, The ARTery, WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, and Migration Cluster co-chair Professor Jacqueline Bhabha on advocating for migrant and refugee rights, representing different voices, and highlighting remarkable acts of solidarity between migrant and host communities.
About the Weatherhead Migration Cluster: In 2022 the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded a “research cluster” award to FXB Center Director of Research Jacqueline Bhabha and Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson for a 3-year seminar series on migration. Dr. Vasileia Digidiki, an FXB Health and Human Rights fellow and Harvard Instructor, is also a core member of the cluster. The title of the research cluster is “Building Inclusion, Sustaining Solidarity: Frontline Host Communities, Distress Migrants and the Role of the State.” It is construed to include work that covers both government and non-government practice and how it impacts the well-being or rights of refugees and other distress migrants. The funding supports a group of Harvard doctoral students working on topics related to the cluster’s focus, and a regular seminar series open to all members of the Harvard community. More information about the Migration Cluster in general can be found here.