Food For Thought: Refugees & Migrants
Thu, Mar 17
|Zoom
Join us as for a two-part series on Refugees and Migrants. We will learn about the realities of immigration and will hear from some of our neighbors who've been immigrants and refugees.
Time & Location
Mar 17, 2022, 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Zoom
About the Event
We invite you to join us on Thursday, March 17 and Thursday, April 21 from 12:15 to 1:15 PM to learn more about the realities of immigration and to hear from some of our neighbors who've been immigrants and refugees. This two-part series will cover some of the basics about immigration, current national and local issues, and the asylum process.
Pamela Dellinger of Refugee Support Services will present a 20-minute version of the RSS Refugee 101 training that will include a review of forced migration worldwide, refugees and other populations that are served through the national resettlement program (with particular focus on the legal nature of the designation "refugee") , an overview of how resettlement works at a national level, and some brief details on the landscape locally. She'll also touch very briefly on Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Anna Cushman, the faith community liaison for the Carolinas Chapter of the American Immigration…