**POSTPONED**
We regret to inform you that the March 21st Sawyer Seminar “Criminalized Hospitality and Solidarity Fatigue: (Dis)Empowering Hosts” has been postponed due to a family emergency. We apologize for the short notice. We are hoping to reschedule the event for the fall of 2024, and will update you when we have a firm date. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
The CFD Team
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In this session, we will discuss how discourses and acts of solidarity with migrants in host communities change over time. We aim to engage the multi-layered tension between the often spontaneous hospitality of local populations, the increasingly repressive and exclusionary migration policies of the European Union and the United States, and restrictive national and local measures that criminalize not only migrants and refugees but also various forms of solidarity with them. We will also examine transformations of solidarity and hospitality in frontline host communities when those communities are either supported or abandoned by larger institutional and state structures, and how those transformations in turn shape distressed migrants’ experiences as well as regional and national politics.
This will be a hybrid event with refreshments served for in-person participants. Please reserve a free ticket on our Eventbrite page, and indicate whether you will join in-person or remotely. A passcode will be sent to all remote attendees shortly before the start of the event, which will be required to enter the webinar. The webinar link is: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96883051562?pwd=YXRrb1MxdnVzUFFReWt2NEp6cGlRdz09.
Speaker:
Jacqueline Bhabha (Director of Research FXB Center, Harvard University) — “The Imperative of Sustaining (rather than destroying) Frontline Empathic Solidarity for Distress Migrants”
Discussants:
Marina Lazetic (Director of Programs at Center on Forced Displacement, Boston University)
Carrie Preston (Associate Director of Center on Forced Displacement, Boston University)
Moderator:
Noora Lori (Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University)