They Are US: New Immigrants and Resettled Refugees in New Hampshire

Please join us for a panel discussion on welcoming and supporting new immigrants and resettled refugees in New Hampshire and beyond.

We are pleased to host our panelists:

Dr. Nina Glick Schiller, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology

The grandchild of immigrants to New York City, Nina Glick Schiller has turned her lifelong interest in cities and migration into a comparative and historical perspective on migration, transnational and diasporic processes, methodological nationalism, urban restructuring and the displacement of poor and working people including migrants. Her research has been conducted in Haiti, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany and she has worked with migrants from all regions of the globe. Her co-authored books include Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States and George Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home.

Glick Schiller is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK; Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, USA; an Associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany and; Honorary Professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark.

Ms. Becky Field, New American Africans Board Member, Concord

Since 2012 award-winning photographer, Becky Field, has been photographing the lives of immigrants and refugees in New Hampshire. In a state known for low cultural diversity, she and her camera have been welcomed into immigrant homes, invited to traditional and sacred celebrations, and served a variety of ethnic food. Her work has been recently featured in a book of her photographs, along with an introduction by New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and stories by NH immigrants. Titled "Different Roots, Common Dreams: New Hampshire's Cultural Diversity," the book was published by Peter E Randall Publisher in Portsmouth, and has recently won two national awards from independent publishers associations. In past work she was director of communications for the American Red Cross in New Hampshire, and a Federal wildlife research ecologist and university professor.

Mr. Kamal Basnet, Community Health Specialist, Manchester

Mr. Basnet assists families of children and neighbors connecting resources and services in the community, and improving lives of those who have recently come to this country. He is a founding member and serves on the Board of Directors of the Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire, an organization that provides community support to 2,500 Bhutanese who live in Greater Manchester. Mr. Basnet refers clients to Manchester Community Health Center, Child Health Services, and Manchester Health Department for their medical needs. He assists families with limited English Proficiency by interpreting to providers and schools staffs. He has also worked at Language Bank as an interpreter. Mr. Basnet was recognized and awarded in one of the leadership class 40 under forty by the Union Leader to move New Hampshire forward.

This panel discussion is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: The Global Education Office, KSC and the Class of 39 funds, the Global Education and Citizenship Speakers grant, the Diversity & Multiculturalism Office and Departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice, Education, Health Science, Women and Gender Studies, and the Global Affairs Symposium.

Moderated by Professors Chitra Akkoor and Margaret Walsh