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Dr. Alfred Babo is an Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Fairfield University, as well as the Director of the International Studies Program. Dr. Babo is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise and experience in the anthropology of development, political science, and African studies. He has presented his work nationally and internationally and published it in many peer-reviewed journals in the US, Africa, Europe, and Asia. His recent and current research projects and publications in English and French, focus on the issue of refugees\u2019 activism in Africa and acculturation in the US. One of his recent articles <\/span>\u201c38 Paradise Road: Being an African Francophone Refugee Scholar in American Academia,\u201d<\/span> published in the Journal of International Mobility has been featured as one of the two required readings, along with the well-known paper \u201c<\/span>We Refugees\u201d<\/span> by Hannah Arendt, at the conference, Refuge at Risk: Concepts, Infrastructures, Futures<\/a>, at the University of California Irvine. He has discussed this article in spring 2022 at Clark University. Dr. Babo is co-editing a collective book entitled Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals?, which features refugee scholars hosted in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Dr. Babo has recently collaborated with his respected colleague, Prof. Anita Fabos, and two eminent practitioners Leora Khan and Craig Mortley to launch the initiative Share the Platform to advocate for refugees\u2019 self-representation and expertise. He is currently a member of the Board of Scholars-at-Risk (SAR) to help exiled academics. On February 8, 2023, Dr. Babo received the Fairfield University 2023 Martin Luther King Vision Award<\/a> to recognize his engagement with refugees and vulnerable individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":407,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_sortname":"Alfred Babo","cu_people_title":"Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Fairfield University","cu_people_email":"ababo@fairfield.edu","cu_people_phone":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[30],"class_list":["post-399","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-research-partners"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlfred Babo | Integration and Belonging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/people\/alfred-babo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alfred Babo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Alfred Babo is an Associate Professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Fairfield University, as well as the Director of the International Studies Program. 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