Organizing D.C.'s Migrant Communities in the Wake of Displacement

Description

Join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a roundtable discussion about how various communities of color in the D.C. area have experienced—and are organizing against—different yet resonant forms of transnational and local displacement.

Guest speakers include:

• Quynh Nguyen, core organizer, Viet Place Collective
• Evelyn Yuen, research volunteer, Viet Place Collective
• Haddy Gassama, national director of policy and advocacy, UndocuBlack Network
• Yesenia Portillo, program director, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

This event is part of two currently offered undergraduate community-engaged courses—one on Asian diasporic history and the other on the military-industrial complex based in D.C.—that belong to the new and upcoming Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) major at Johns Hopkins. CDS will enable students to study the solidarities and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study such as Asian American, African diaspora, Indigenous, and Latinx studies.

Funding for this event provided by a Johns Hopkins Nexus Award and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. Co-sponsored by Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV).