Humanizing Immigration Panel Discussion
Sun, Nov 16
|Staunton Books & Tea
A diverse panel discussion on immigration, featuring personal insight, professional experience, and global perspective on the meaning of home, belonging, and humanity in a world on the move.
Time & Location
Nov 16, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Staunton Books & Tea, 34 E Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401, USA
About the event
Join us for a non-partisan panel discussion that brings together diverse voices to explore the human side of migration. Our guests include poet and professor Seth Michelson, the author of Hope on the Border; Annette Naber, a psychology scholar who worked with the Smithsonian Research Institute for Immigration and Ethnic Studies; historian and former asylum officer Christopher Gan; and Angela Higgs, an immigrant and proprietor of the Accordia and Sama-Sama at Downtown Staunton. Each panelist offers distinct perspectives shaped by scholarship, fieldwork, and lived experience.
Together, they will reflect on the challenges and hopes surrounding immigration—from displacement and adaptation to questions of belonging and identity. This conversation aims to move beyond statistics and politics, inviting empathy, understanding, and meaningful dialogue about what it means to make a home in a changing world.
In this blog post we collected a list of books on immigration carefully selected for you by our speakers…