Gil Richard Musolf - Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope

STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC
INTERACTION

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STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONVOLUME 51

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GIL RICHARD MUSOLF

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Gil Richard Musolf

Part I
The Social Structure of Conflict

Gil Richard Musolf

Michael J. Papa and Wendy H. Papa

Ula Sunata

Part II
Voices of Survival, Resilience, and Hope

Mari Malek

Nafije Krasniqi Prishtina

Derick Abrigu and Mara Silva

Kim Schultz

Edward Ou Jin Lee and Abelardo Len

Part III
Humanitarian Advocacy

Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Myrna McNitt and Erna Maria Rizeria Dinata

Karen Gordon

Gail Vignola

Part IV
Art and Hope

Alexandra Christian Budny

Joel Bergner

Derick Abrigu

Derick Abrigu is a Graduate Researcher completing a dual Masters degree in Public Administration and Latin American Studies with a focus on forced migration issues at San Diego State University, San Diego, USA. He holds a Bachelors in Anthropology and Political Science from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, his home.

He has been passionate with respect to the theme of irregular migration for several years now, a development that stems from his life experiences as a second generation Peruvian migrant to Canada. From an early age, he was exposed to the nuances of a flawed immigration system, as he witnessed the disappearance/deportation of family and friends. Filled with a determination to respond to these injustices, he has dedicated his vocation to address the fundamental flaws of our global immigration policy structure.

Currently, he is completing his thesis, a comparative ethnographic study of the Mexico-US borderlands, where he works with vulnerable populations in Tijuana and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, including repatriated Mexican nationals and in-transit migrants from various countries.

Joel Bergner

Joel Bergner (aka Joel Artista) is an Artist, Educator, and Organizer of community-based public art initiatives with youth and families around the world. He works in acrylic and aerosol, creating elaborate paintings and public murals that explore social topics and reflect a wide array of artistic influences. Joel has facilitated community mural projects in Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East, juvenile detention centers in the US, and the shantytowns of Kenya, India, and Brazil. He earned his BA in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago and has a background in counseling youth with various mental health issues. These experiences inform his current work addressing issues of trauma related to violence conflict, displacement, and social marginalization. For each project, he partners with local residents and organizations to give a platform to people in highly challenging circumstances to explore issues that are important to them, learn valuable skills and uplift their environment through public art. These social projects have featured partnerships with dozens of local and international institutions, including UNICEF, Mercy Corps, and the Open Society Initiative. Joels work has been featured extensively in media, including Al-Jazeera English, NPR (National Public Radio), Arise TV, Reuters, AFP (Agence-France Presse), Voice of America, the New York Times, TIME magazine, and the Washington Post, among many others. His work has also been published in the books Street Art San Francisco and Mural Art Volume 3.

Alexandra Christian Budny

Alexandra Christian Budny, PhD, is a recent Graduate in Rhetoric, Interdisciplinary Humanities and the Arts through the doctoral Rhetoric program at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her BA in the Arts and International Studies from Northwestern University, with additional studies at the Universit di Bologna, Italy, as well as an MA in Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching interests revolve around questions of narrative and the arts capacities to not just reveal and reflect, but constitute, challenge, and change in arenas of understanding, identity, and community/belonging. After her training in the fields of agency, subjectivity and personhood, affect theory and aesthetics, and empathy and human rights through the arts, she arrived at the nexus of narrative and Refugee/Forced Migration studies. Her work here focuses on the particular project of the Refugee and Forced Migration