Arab Refugees | United States

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 11:30 AM. Location: Zoom “Introduction to Arab Studies” is a Fall 2021 course that will offer a speaker series component open to our community. The series of events will highlight the framework of collective belonging, cultural construction, identity and heritage formation, and is this year's academic theme for the Abbasi Program. Thursday, November 11th: Marcia Inhorn, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, will discuss her book America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins. America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars—especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan—to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of...