November 6, 4:00PM | 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103, Wolff Conference Room
Join us for a conversation with acclaimed journalist Amira Hass, titled “Palestinian Life under Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation”.
November 8, 4:00PM – 6:00PM | 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103 – Wolff Conference Room
The sale of passports and visas to non-citizens-once considered a “shady” black market business- has flourished into a full-fledged global industry. Citizenship-by-investment (CBI) and residency-by-investment (RBI), commonly referred to as “Golden Passport” and “Golden Visa” programs respectively, create accelerated legal pathways for third country nationals to attain passports or visas in exchange for foreign investment. Today, selling passports and visas is not only legally sanctioned, but actively promoted by over 100 countries across the globe, with the Gulf region emerging as a critical hub for this market over the last decade.
Why are people who may be relatively economically privileged but legally precarious increasingly turning to these programs to help solve their citizenship and residency status?
What does this market for passports and visas reveal about emerging patterns of labor, migration, and belonging in the Gulf and globally?
Passport Power: Mobility Diplomacy and Citizenship Markets in the Gulf Read More »
November 19, 4:0PM – 6:00PM | 79 Fifth Avenue, Room 1618
Should the multi-disciplinary field of Forced Migration Studies (FMS) re-orient itself around the concept of “displacement”? This short intervention situates this question against the background of the transition from Refugee Studies to FMS, as well as external developments in the realm of protection. It draws attention to how the concept of displacement has become more central to both policy and academic discussion in FMS before considering what difference such a re-orientation might make conceptually, ethically, and politically. It concludes by suggesting that FMS might be conceived as standing between and across two larger fields of enquiry: Migration Studies and Displacement Studies.
From Forced Migration to Displacement? Read More »
