When:
Friday, November 10, 2023
All day
Where: Scott Hall, Guild Lounge, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Contact:
Bobbie Benavidez
Group: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Sponsor: Indigenous Graduate Student Collective
Category: Multicultural & Diversity, Lectures & Meetings
Immigration and Indigeneity Workshop, Nov 10-11 @ Guild Hall and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Dear NU Campus Community,
Recently, the Biden Administration launched the CBP One app to streamline asylum applications to the US at the same time that Title 42, a provision allowing expulsion of asylum seekers on public health grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, closed this past May. What may come after these policy realities remains to be seen. In Chicago, 357 buses of asylum seekers, and roughly 17,000 people in total, have arrived in the city since August 2022. As temporary migrant shelters begin opening in the greater Chicago area in preparation for the rapidly approaching harsh winter months, rising anti-immigrant sentiments have spiked amongst residents in those neighborhoods.
Already facing barriers as people seeking protection in the US, many transgender, intersex, and gender variant asylum seekers face further “discrimination and violence” in an already uphill battle to secure fundamental freedoms and acceptance. For Indigenous asylum seekers, discrimination based on language, race, and community presents further challenges to an immigration system that disproportionately harms individuals with multiple points of oppression and disenfranchisement.
Recognizing the unique pressures felt by these communities, Sanctuarium - a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting transgender, intersex, and gender variant immigrant communities - has partnered with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA), and the Indigenous Graduate Student Collective (IGSC) to host “Immigration and Indigeneity: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop.” This is part of the two-city workshop series “Immigration in the US: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop” in Los Angeles (September 8-9 2023) and Chicago (November 10-11, 2023).
Funded by the US Department of State’s Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF) Award, CNAIR, and MSA, this workshop recognizes that the changing practical and policy landscapes (and their attendant challenges) can create practical barriers to direct service providers supporting immigrant communities, researchers focused on refugee communities and direct service provision, and immigrant and Indigenous communities themselves. With this recognition, this workshop aims to respond to changing landscapes and emerging challenges by fostering dedicated time and space to create organizational and cross-organizational dialogue and responses, create greater synergy between service providers and researchers, and enhance actors’ and communities’ capacities and preparedness to respond and support. This workshop from November 10-11 will prove to be a central space to convene and respond.
On November 10, the workshop will center two keynotes from Dr. S. B. West and Alexandra Rodriguez (see posters below) while hosting panels that lift up service providers working to support immigrant communities in Chicagoland and across the US. On November 11, the workshop will be for students only and center student opportunities to research and engage, including sessions on identifying funding for research in the US and abroad, managing burnout, and action. The event will be catered both days, and space is limited. For NU students, faculty, and staff, please complete this form to register your interest in attending. If you are or know of another organization outside of NU that could benefit from attending or presenting, please fill out this form. Priority will be given to students, faculty, and staff with lived experience related to the topics and themes of the workshop.
Thank you for your time and we hope to meet many of you in the coming weeks.
For more information, please contact info@sanctuarium.org."
When:
Saturday, November 11, 2023
All day
Where: Scott Hall, Guild Lounge, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Contact:
Bobbie Benavidez
Group: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Sponsor: Indigenous Graduate Student Collective
Category: Multicultural & Diversity, Lectures & Meetings
Immigration and Indigeneity Workshop, Nov 10-11 @ Guild Hall and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)
Dear NU Campus Community,
Recently, the Biden Administration launched the CBP One app to streamline asylum applications to the US at the same time that Title 42, a provision allowing expulsion of asylum seekers on public health grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, closed this past May. What may come after these policy realities remains to be seen. In Chicago, 357 buses of asylum seekers, and roughly 17,000 people in total, have arrived in the city since August 2022. As temporary migrant shelters begin opening in the greater Chicago area in preparation for the rapidly approaching harsh winter months, rising anti-immigrant sentiments have spiked amongst residents in those neighborhoods.
Already facing barriers as people seeking protection in the US, many transgender, intersex, and gender variant asylum seekers face further “discrimination and violence” in an already uphill battle to secure fundamental freedoms and acceptance. For Indigenous asylum seekers, discrimination based on language, race, and community presents further challenges to an immigration system that disproportionately harms individuals with multiple points of oppression and disenfranchisement.
Recognizing the unique pressures felt by these communities, Sanctuarium - a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting transgender, intersex, and gender variant immigrant communities - has partnered with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA), and the Indigenous Graduate Student Collective (IGSC) to host “Immigration and Indigeneity: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop.” This is part of the two-city workshop series “Immigration in the US: Changing Landscapes and Emerging Issues - A Workshop” in Los Angeles (September 8-9 2023) and Chicago (November 10-11, 2023).
Funded by the US Department of State’s Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF) Award, CNAIR, and MSA, this workshop recognizes that the changing practical and policy landscapes (and their attendant challenges) can create practical barriers to direct service providers supporting immigrant communities, researchers focused on refugee communities and direct service provision, and immigrant and Indigenous communities themselves. With this recognition, this workshop aims to respond to changing landscapes and emerging challenges by fostering dedicated time and space to create organizational and cross-organizational dialogue and responses, create greater synergy between service providers and researchers, and enhance actors’ and communities’ capacities and preparedness to respond and support. This workshop from November 10-11 will prove to be a central space to convene and respond.
On November 10, the workshop will center two keynotes from Dr. S. B. West and Alexandra Rodriguez (see posters below) while hosting panels that lift up service providers working to support immigrant communities in Chicagoland and across the US. On November 11, the workshop will be for students only and center student opportunities to research and engage, including sessions on identifying funding for research in the US and abroad, managing burnout, and action. The event will be catered both days, and space is limited. For NU students, faculty, and staff, please complete this form to register your interest in attending. If you are or know of another organization outside of NU that could benefit from attending or presenting, please fill out this form. Priority will be given to students, faculty, and staff with lived experience related to the topics and themes of the workshop.
Thank you for your time and we hope to meet many of you in the coming weeks.
For more information, please contact info@sanctuarium.org."