Lecture: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 20 Apr 2016 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures Student activities |
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Responders and Resource People
Carly Ross directs the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in Des Moines. It is Iowa’s largest refugee resettlement agency, supporting approximately 650 newly-arrived refugees each year. Ross also has experience with the refugee screening process overseas in East Africa.
Nell Gabiam has appointments in both the Political Science and Anthropology Departments at Iowa State. She has conducted fieldwork among Palestinians in France as part of a collaborative project on statelessness with faculty at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Center. Her most recent project has focused on the effects of the war in Syria on the country’s Palestinian refugee population, and traveled to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Sweden.