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Panel: Experts Discuss Free Speech, Refugee Crisis

Panel: Experts Discuss Free Speech, Refugee Crisis

By Nora Toscano January 25, 2024

The Free Speech Project and the Future of the Humanities Project co-hosted a virtual panel discussion about the international refugee crisis on Jan 24.  The event was part of the two organizations’...

Event: Activist Discusses Ukrainian Children’s Struggles with Disabilities

Event: Activist Discusses Ukrainian Children’s Struggles with Disabilities

By Brian Li January 20, 2023

Disability Rights International (DRI), an organization dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can fully participate in society, discussed the current plight Ukrainian children with disabilities...

Advocacy and Identity: Refugee Communities at Georgetown

Advocacy and Identity: Refugee Communities at Georgetown

By Rania Khan November 11, 2022

Zahra Wakilzada (SFS ’23) lived in Afghanistan for the first 13 years of her life before moving to Pakistan and then the United States after her family came under threat by the Taliban because of her...

EVENT: Climate Change Poses Immigration Challenges As Number Of Climate-Driven Migrants Increases

EVENT: Climate Change Poses Immigration Challenges As Number Of Climate-Driven Migrants Increases

By Paige Kupas April 28, 2022

Climate change is accelerating the refugee crisis and posing global, demographic and political disruptions, a panelist said at an April 25 event.  The event, titled “State of Disaster: How Climate...

YU: Extend Aid to Afghan Refugees

YU: Extend Aid to Afghan Refugees

By Angela Yu September 23, 2021

With hundreds of Afghan refugees arriving through Dulles International Airport and into the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area, Georgetown University students have a valuable opportunity to provide...

VIEWPOINT: Stand With Syrian Citizens

VIEWPOINT: Stand With Syrian Citizens

By Omar Alshogre March 18, 2021

This piece discusses violence, police brutality and incarceration. Please refer to the end of the article for on- and off-campus resources. For people around the world, March represents the changing...

Policy Guided by Compassion, Faith Can Repair U.S. Immigration Policy,  Refugee Rights Activist Says

Policy Guided by Compassion, Faith Can Repair U.S. Immigration Policy, Refugee Rights Activist Says

By Laetitia Haddad September 29, 2020

Despite a resurgence of xenophobic policies and attitudes in American politics, many refugees have found strength in faith, author and refugee rights activist Jessica Goudeau said in a virtual book talk...

VIEWPOINT: Assist Refugees in Lebanon

VIEWPOINT: Assist Refugees in Lebanon

By Youssef Osman February 14, 2020

For over three months, the Lebanese people protested against a government that failed to meet their basic needs and demands. Even though newly elected Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s Hezbollah-backed government...

Current Immigration Policies Harm Refugees, Union Reps Say

Current Immigration Policies Harm Refugees, Union Reps Say

By Harrison McBride January 24, 2020

Immigration policies enacted under President Donald Trump’s administration have harmed the global reputation of the United States regarding refugee protection, two United States Citizenship and Immigration...

URTZ: Learning From Jordanian Hospitality

URTZ: Learning From Jordanian Hospitality

By Hannah Urtz November 9, 2018

When I lost my credit card in a crowded market last month, I initially felt panic. I frantically shuffled from vendor to vendor, retracing my steps to ask if anyone had seen it. Nobody had. Yet, as...

DILLON: American Dreamin

DILLON: American Dreamin’

By Raymond W. Dillon Jr. February 13, 2018

Earlier this week, I awoke from a vivid nightmare. I dreamt that my daughter had been forcibly taken by the police and incarcerated. Her crime was her failure to produce adequate documentation of her legal...

BOSCO: The Jesuit Case for Dreamers

BOSCO: The Jesuit Case for ‘Dreamers’

By Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J. February 5, 2018

As our country nears a showdown on immigration policy and we at Georgetown University worry about the plight of our own “Dreamers,” the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program,...

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