About this Event
Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania
2021–2022 FORUM ON MIGRATIONThe End of Asylum
Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Around the world, more people have been displaced by famine, war, and climate than ever before — and fewer are welcome to seek asylum elsewhere. The barriers these 82 million people encounter as they seek refuge point to the erosion of the international conventions on asylum first adopted in 1951. Seventy years later, is asylum still viable?
More information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/jones-correa
Cosponsored by Penn's Perry World House.
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This event is free and open to the public and will be presented both in-person and online. Registration is required.
In accordance with Penn’s COVID-19 Guidelines, all in-person attendees are required to wear a mask; display their PennOpen Pass or PennOpen Campus green pass before entry; attest to having been vaccinated; and register their contact information with the organizers in the case that follow-up from contact tracers is needed.
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<blockquote>Michael Jones-Correa is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a co-principal investigator of the 2006 Latino National Survey, the 2012 and 2016 Latino Immigrant National Election Study (LINES), and of research on immigrant/native-born contract, trust and civic engagement in Philadelphia and Atlanta, among other research. He has worked and published extensively on immigrant political mobilization, inter-group relations, and the integration of immigrants into receiving societies. Recent publications include Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants (Russell Sage 2020), Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford 2013), Latinos in the New Millennium (Cambridge, 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple, 2010). </blockquote>
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, United States
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