Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

April 20, 2017 | 9:00 a.m. | Blue Mountain Community College - Hermiston Campus

975 SE Columbia Ave., Hermiston OR 97838

Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Oregonians have and will continue to see the results of international migration in our neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities. Read more.

Event Sponsors

Blue Mountain Community College

Cost

Free

Contact

Allison Timmons at (541) 289-2832 or atimmons@bluecc.edu