cpsylist: FW: [Dreamers] CLLAS Research Series: Creating Communities of Welcome, 3/1 at 3:30 in 254 Straub

[Ellen McWhirter]

From: dreamers-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu [mailto:dreamers-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Feather Crawford
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:37 AM
To: dreamers at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: [Dreamers] CLLAS Research Series: Creating Communities of Welcome, 3/1 at 3:30 in 254 Straub

Dear all,

Please spread the word about this upcoming CLLAS Research Series event:
Creating Communities of Welcome: Understanding Motives to Assist Immigrants and Refugees in a Hostile Era.

Kristin Yarris, Brenda Garcia Millan, and Karla Schmidt-Murillo (Dept. of International Studies) will share the results of their research on Thursday, March 1 at 3:30 pm in 254 Straub.

In this presentation, Yarris, Garcia-Millan, and Schmidt-Murillo will draw on interviews conducted with thirty volunteers, who work to assist immigrants and refugees in Oregon, to understand their motives to help. Preliminary analysis shows that motivations to aid immigrants and refugees are both personal and political; that is, people are motivated to help by a politics of affect, a sense of justice and fairness, and by personal narratives, family histories, and religious values. These motives of care are the basis upon which these volunteers, considered informal humanitarians, act to create spaces of welcome for immigrants and refugees in Oregon, despite (and in the face of) an increasingly-hostile political climate in the U.S. These findings are used to consider the implications for social movements and public policy that foster global connectedness and cross-cultural understanding in the contemporary context of rising nationalism and ethnocentrism.
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Sincerely,

Feather Crawford
Event Planner & Project Manager,
Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies | CLLAS
Dreamers Steering Committee Coordinator
PhD Candidate, Department of History

I support all students regardless of immigration status or country of origin. Remember, when interacting with faculty, staff, and offices on campus you are never required to reveal your status.
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