{"id":4410,"date":"2018-11-16T21:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:54:59","slug":"hias-pennsylvania-and-refugee-resettlement-work-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/2018\/11\/16\/hias-pennsylvania-and-refugee-resettlement-work-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"HIAS Pennsylvania and Refugee Resettlement Work Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On October 25, 2018, SCRC<\/a> Associate Archivist Jessica Lydon, joined historian of Vietnam and migration, Professor Dieu T. Nguyen, and Executive Director of HIAS Pennsylvania<\/a>, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, in Paley Library for a panel discussion.   Professor Lila Corwin Berman, Director of the Feinstein Center for  American Jewish History,<\/a> moderated the panel which featured HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) Pennsylvania\u2019s history, its various resettlement efforts, and the work HIAS PA is doing to address today’s refugee crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Immigrants at port, undated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Lydon highlighted portions of the HIAS Pennsylvania Records<\/a> collection held in Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, most notably the organization\u2019s resettling of Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Russian empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; advocacy work against restrictive immigration legislation including literacy tests and head taxes; and collaborative resettlement work with local VOLAGs (voluntary agencies) to assist Southeast Asian refugees in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nguyen shared with attendees a chronology of key events surrounding Vietnam War-related refugees, how Vietnamese refugees regarded American aid associations that assisted them in the resettlement process, current characteristics and figures of Southeast Asian populations in Philadelphia and beyond, as well as her personal connections to these events, through the experiences of her two brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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HIAS PA staff welcoming Southeast Asian refugees, undated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Miller-Wilson spoke about HIAS PA\u2019s current efforts to assist vulnerable populations and some of the challenges to this work including the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s proposed wealth test regulation known as the \u201cpublic charge rule,\u201d which if enacted would deny green card and other visa applicants for using \u201cone or more public benefit\u201d in the past or being \u201clikely at any time\u201d to receive such benefits in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist, SCRC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On October 25, 2018, SCRC Associate Archivist Jessica Lydon, joined historian of Vietnam and migration, Professor Dieu T. Nguyen, and Executive Director of HIAS Pennsylvania, Cathryn Miller-Wilson, in Paley Library for a panel discussion.   Professor Lila Corwin Berman, Director of the Feinstein Center for  American Jewish History, moderated the panel which featured HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant … Continue reading HIAS Pennsylvania and Refugee Resettlement Work Panel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,25,50,16,6],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-news","tag-american-jewish-history","tag-history-news","tag-immigration","tag-philadelphia-history","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/historynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}