JSRI Forum Series
People on the Move and the Common Good: Migration, Poverty, and Racism, Converging Concerns for Our Future
[October-November, 2009]
Fall Conference Report
Over 500 individuals participated in one or another of the events in our fall conference, People on the Move, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Our conference began with the experience of the internally displaced people of Katrina’s New Orleans in the first week and then moved to the migrating peoples of the South in the second to the plight of immigrant peoples of the United States in the third and to the world’s displaced in the last week. Major components were a documentary film and three major addresses open to the public and daytime activities involving students, faculty, and community members as well.
Keynote speakers also met with classes in global sociology, Latin American studies, and migration. They engaged in meetings with undergraduate faculty and with law faculty and students. JSRI staff also produced and distributed at all events an eight page conference booklet on migration facts, opportunities for immigration advocacy, books and media resources on migration, and Catholic social teaching and migration.
Major events were:
Wednesday, October 28, 2009--"Trouble the Waters"
7:30-9:30 p.m.--Nunemaker Hall:
Academy Award Nominated film-Trouble the Water – viewing and discussion with Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts, whose footage and stories were featured in this film about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in the lives of displaced people.
Three major addresses followed--7:30-9:00 p.m--St. Charles Room, Danna Center:
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Migration in the South:
Emerging Trends and Critical Issues
by Dr. Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Workers on the Move: Immigration and Economic Justice in the United States
by Ms. Kim Bobo, Director, Interfaith Worker Justice
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Refugees and Asylum-Seekers:
International Human Rights and Catholic Social Teaching
by Dr. Katrine Camilleri, Assistant Director,
Jesuit Refugee Service, Malta
Midday panels explored related themes:
November 3: Katrina’s Internally Displaced People:
The Stats and the Stories
Panelists:
• Allison Plyer, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
• Liz McCartney, St. Bernard Project
• Kimble Wright, Loyola University Student, Junior
• Macede Jackson, Loyola University Student, Junior
November 10: Local Opportunities for Accompanying Migrants
Panelists:
• Martin Gutierrez, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans
• Anna Chavez, JSRI Migration Specialist, Justice for Immigrants Campus Campaign
PLUS:
• A “DREAM ACT STORY” from THIS AMERICAN LIFE. An audio-interview by reporter Douglas McGray
November 17: Coming Face-to-Face with the Stranger:
Experiences of Service and Immersion
Panelists:
• Fr. Tom Greene, SJ, Loyola Sociology Department, JSRI Associate for Migration
• Justine Diamond, Loyola alumna (’06) currently working with the Hispanic Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New Orleans
• Loyola Center for International Education – Opportunities for Study Abroad AND Service to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
• Josh Daly, University Ministry and Ignacio Volunteers
More extensive Proceedings of the conference will be made available early next year.
Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility
[October, 2008]
On October 1, 2008, the Jesuit Social Research Institute collaborated with the Loyola University President, Fr. Kevin Wildes, S.J., in presenting a Presidential Forum on the 2008 elections.
For a video of the forum and to learn more about it, please click here: Faithful Citizenship; A Call to Political Responsibility. The Keynote speaker was John Carr, Director, Department of Justice, Peace & Human Development, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Panel discussants were Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Sister/Doctor Jamie Phelps, O.P., and Loyola Law Dean Brian Bromberger.
