Panel Discussion on Migration

In partnership with International House Philadelphia, Office of Immigrant Affairs, and  University of Pennsylvania, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presented an interdisciplinary panel on migration and its impact on society and the city.  Three experts from the legal, urban studies, and sociological spheres will addressed questions of who becomes an immigrant and why, where refugees are settling throughout the region, how immigration makes and remakes spaces, and how it transforms socioeconomic and cultural systems.  The panelists will offered insight about the economic and cultural benefits immigration brings, as well as challenges faced by immigrants and refugees as they make new lives in the region.

Panelists Included: Domenic Vitiello, Fernando Chang-Muy and Emilio A. Parrado