Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
No Place But Home: Karen Burmese Refugees and the Early Warming Signs of Repatriation
Jack Doppelt is a professor at Medill, publisher of Immigrant Connect, and director of RefugeeLives. RefugeeLives depicts the daily lives of refugees and establishes connections between resettled refugees and those abroad. He has published widely on libel, the media’s influence on the criminal justice system, and the media coverage of the legal system. He has represented a group of journalists before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a successful attempt to gain access to sealed court documents. As an investigative journalist in Chicago, he broke stories on court corruption, housing dangers and governmental conflicts of interest. As part of Immigrant Connect, he wrote stories about refugee life in Namibia’s Osire camp, and he co-produced, wrote and voiced a half-hour radio documentary, "Chicago’s Global Immigrants: Beyond the American Dream," that aired on WBEZ.