Princeton’s Seeking Refuge Conference Recap
Link to video sessions on Princeton Website
Friday, March 3rd
JLI Refugees & Forced Migration Hub met on Friday following the plenary panel of the conference. Stacy Nam, Knowledge Manager for JLI and Joey Ager led a discussion of the hub’s progress and scoping study More information here
Opening Panel included Andrea Bartoli, Community of Sant’Egidio (Moderator), Joel Charny, Norwegian Refugee Council-USA, Reverend Seth Kaper-Dale, Reformed Church of Highland Park, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, Sana Mustafa (Respondent)
Panelists reflected on personal stories of migration and how very recently most people who live in the US can trace back a story of migration in their own family.
Saturday, March 4th Speakers & Sessions
Roundtable Session 1 (full list of speakers)
- Gender and Migration(including JLI Member Erin Wilson, University of Groningen (Moderator)
- On-the-Ground Lessons from an International Perspective (including JLI Member Tahir Zaman, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) (Moderator) and Isis Sunwoo, World Vision International)
- Interfaith Approaches to Migration (including JLI Member-Daniel O’Neill, Christian Journal for Global Health)
- Global Citizenship in an Era of Nationalism
- Root Causes of Forced Migration
- Forced Passage: Smuggling, Trafficking, and Creating Humanitarian Corridors
- Religious Experience: Testimonies from Refugees and Workers
- Let’s Talk About Politics: Politicization of Migrants
- Refugees in the Law(including JLI Member-Sharif Aly, Islamic Relief USA)
- Syria and Iraq: Religion and Migration in the Face of Violence
- In Every Generation: Descendants Carry on the Work
Roundtable Session 2
- Health, Mental Health, and Migration
- Refugee Resettlement: From Global to Local
- The Media and Migration: A Workshop
- What is the Just University? Responding to Forced Migration
- Creating Sanctuary Space: A Workshop
- Refugee Work as Vocation
- How Do We Operationalize Our Faith?
- Refugees and Resistance
- Children, Religion, and Refugees
- Women Refugees: Conversation and Action (with JLI Board Member Katherine Marshall)
Closing Panel:
Once a Refugee, Always a Refugee?
Faith-Based Responses in Refugee Welcoming and Assimilation
Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University (Moderator)
Claudio Betti, Community of Sant’Egidio
Ashley Feasley, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Sarah Sayeed, New York City Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit
Mamadou Sy, Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area