"Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History" with Linda Rabben

Allison Gunn Announcement
Location
Maryland, United States
Subject Fields
Anthropology, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Borderlands, Social Sciences, Public Policy

The Center for Global Migration Studies 

presents

 "Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History"

With

Linda Rabben

A lecture in our Migration Exchanges Series

 

Thursday, September 29th at 4 pm

Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 

 

Linda Rabben is an author, human rights activist and associate research professor of anthropology at the University of

Maryland. She did field research in Brazil over a 25-year period and worked for Amnesty International, the Rainforest Foundation, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and other NGOs on human rights, migration, environmental and international development issues. Her eighth book, Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History, will be

published by University of Washington Press in September 2016. She has spoken about migration issues to diverse

audiences in the US and UK.

 

Refreshments will be served.  RSVP to globalmigration@umd.edu

For more information, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1751125551766362/

Contact Information

Allison Gunn and Julie McVey

Graduate AssistantsCenter for Global Migration StudiesUniversity of Maryland, College Park2133 Francis Scott Key Hall(301) 405-4305

 

Contact Email
globalmigration@umd.edu