The Graduate School is pleased to announce the arrival of six graduate exchange students from Utrecht University in the Netherlands . They are all participants in the US-EU Transatlantic Program in Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies (REMS). They will be on campus from July 1 - August 8 engaged in independent research primarily under the supervision of Dr. Fariyal Ross-Sheriff in the School of Social Work.

The students are interested in the following topics:

 

- Economic incorporation of refugees

- Adoption, Negotiation and Validation of hyphenated identities

- Attitudes towards Muslims (US & NL)

- Intergenerational sustainment of transnational activity and community

- Refugee and Immigrant policy

- Issues in practice with immigrants and refugees

They will present their projects at a special program on Thursday, August 7 at 1:00 p.m.  (location to be announced).  For more information, contact Dr. Lisa R. Rawlings, REMS coordinator, rems@howard.edu.