When death is not the end By Ever Osorio, M.A. candidate in the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research. Sometimes death is not the end. This is not a religious or metaphysical predicament, but a material reality for thousands of families whose fathers, brothers, mothers and sisters have migrated “illegally”, and “irregularly” […]
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Prof. Alexandra Delano has published an article that explores the (de)construction of the “illegal” immigrant figure in American politics and media. Read more at http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/10/the-deconstruction-of-the-illegal-immigrant/#.Vg7i1hNVhHw
Prof. Alexandra Delano’s work is cited in Mexico’s leading newspaper Reforma concerning the nomination of Miguel Basáñez as the first Mexican Ambassador to the United States coming from the Mexican diaspora. Read more at https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/1154603.de-la-diaspora.html
Prof. Alexandra Délano Alonso was invited to be part of a panel on Latino Integration concerning the possibilities of immigration reform, access to U.S. citizenship, and influence on Hispanoc Assimilation. You can read more here https://wallethub.com/edu/states-where-hispanics-are-most-assimilated/15591/#alexandra-d-lano-alonso
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Professor Teresa Ghilarducci from the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research has recently published an article on The Atlantic concerning the possible consequences that the current migratory movement could have on the European labor market. Read more at http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/what-effect-will-migration-have-on-european-wages/404473/
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In an interview to the Mexican newspaper Excélsior, the co-Director Alexandra Délano speaks about the Mexican indigenous migration to the United States. While the indigenous population make up for a fifth of the Mexican migrants to the US, many of this migrant population do not speak English nor Spanish. Co-Director Délano highlighted that, in face of weak institutional protection, these migrants organize
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The American Sociological Association International Migration announces the Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award: Ariela Schachter for “A Change of Heart or Change of Address? The Geographic Sorting of Whites’ Attitudes towards Immigrants.” Other ASA International Migration section awards are: Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award: FitzGerald, David and David Cook-Martín. 2014. Culling the Masses: The Democratic
On Wednesday, June 10th, Professor Miriam Ticktin, co-director of the Zolberg Institute, gave this year’s Elizabeth Colson Lecture at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. The Colson Lecture is a prestigious annual event that the University of Oxford hosts to highlight and showcase innovative, timely and thought provoking work in the interdisciplinary field of
The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) – a Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility working group – held its first forum and session here at the New School on January 5th. An initiative spearheaded by both Liz Sevcenko and Claire Potter, the HAL working group aims to “bring together stakeholders from around the world to create
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Miriam Ticktin, co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, delivered the keynote address at conferences in the Fall 2014 on humanitarianism and care. During the conference “Exceptional welfare: Dilemmas in/of irregular migration” in Bergen (Norway) November 19-21, co-director Ticktin gave a talk entitled “Care Beyond Welfare?” “Humanitarianism and Beyond: the Pasts and Futures of Care”
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