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On Complicating Migration Narratives with Karen Gonzalez | Migration Series | Ep. 98
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What stories have you been told about migration?
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Karen Gonzalez is a speaker, writer, storyteller, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 15 years, she has been a non-profit professional, currently working for an organization that serves refugees and other immigrants. She wrote a book about her own immigration story and some of the immigrants found in the Bible: The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible, and the Journey to Belong (Herald Press, May 2019) as well as Karen her second book, Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in our Christian Response to Immigration (Brazos Press, October 2022. She also has bylines in Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and others. She is the co-host of the Latina-focused podcast Cafe with Comadres.
Today, Karen and Abbie explore the stories we hold around migration: starting with Karen’s own experiences; the stories that inspire Karen to do the work she does; and the complicated (and often contradictory) stories of immigration in the United States, the world beyond, and throughout history. Karen discusses examples of harmful, inaccurate, and wrong narratives about refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers that persist in the United States. As an alternative, Karen offers a few more hopeful, complex, and humanizing stories. Finally, Karen explains the need for an active hope and Abbie describes what it means to lean into the power of shaping our social worlds through our stories.
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