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DESCRIPTION:Reconsidering Refugees and Immigration: A Conversation with Din
 a NayeriWhy are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee a
 nd award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question\, then turns
  to her own shocking and illuminating experiences\, which grow into a reck
 oning with believability in our culture. "Who Gets Believed?" is as deeply
  personal as it is profound in its reflections on morals\, language\, hist
 ory\, compassion\, and the unspoken social codes that determine how we rel
 ate to one another. Nayeri offers a new understanding of refugee life\, co
 nfronting dangers from the metaphor of the swarm to the notion of “good” i
 mmigrants. With surprising and provocative questions\, her other book\, "T
 he Ungrateful Refugee\," recalibrates the conversation around the refugee 
 experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to be force
 d to flee your home\, and to journey across borders in the hope of startin
 g afresh.Dina Nayeri is an Iranian-American writer and recently joined the
  faculty at the University of St. Andrews. This conversation will be condu
 cted by Kristi Andersen\, professor emerita of political science and senio
 r research associate of the Campbell Institute.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:State of Democracy Lecture with Dina Nayeri
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Reconsidering Refugees and Immigration: A C
 onversation with Dina Nayeri</p><p>Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed
  as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with
  this question\, then turns to her own shocking and illuminating experienc
 es\, which grow into a reckoning with believability in our culture. "Who G
 ets Believed?" is as deeply personal as it is profound in its reflections 
 on morals\, language\, history\, compassion\, and the unspoken social code
 s that determine how we relate to one another. </p><p>Nayeri offers a new 
 understanding of refugee life\, confronting dangers from the metaphor of t
 he swarm to the notion of “good” immigrants. With surprising and provocati
 ve questions\, her other book\, "The Ungrateful Refugee\," recalibrates th
 e conversation around the refugee experience. Here are the real human stor
 ies of what it is like to be forced to flee your home\, and to journey acr
 oss borders in the hope of starting afresh.</p><p>Dina Nayeri is an Irania
 n-American writer and recently joined the faculty at the University of St.
  Andrews. This conversation will be conducted by Kristi Andersen\, profess
 or emerita of political science and senior research associate of the Campb
 ell Institute.&nbsp\;</p>
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