Check the video (in Spanish) about the group of DACA recipients that went to Mexico this summer for a course at El Colegio de Mexico. Co-Director Alexandra Delano was part of the faculty teaching.
Far from being a hobby flight, this is a project to save the lives of drowning refugees, designed by a 33-year-old Afghan who was once one of them. Fifteen years after fleeing his home to escape the Taliban, this drone expert wants to help others like him survive the perilous crossing of the Aegean and
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Co-Director Miriam Ticktin is a Keynote Speaker, alongside Craig Clahoun, for the “Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices” two day event at the London School for Economics and Political Science. In this ‘post-humanitarian’ age, solidarity is driven by converging logics of consumption and utilitarianism where doing good for others is about mundane micro-practices that aim
A talk by Co-Director Alexandra Delano on the policies of the Mexican state towards its diaspora in the United States. Part of the Latin American Institute Lecture Series at UCLA. Assistance for immigrants to learn English, receive health services, open a bank account or get a work certification is generally considered to fall solely under the
Co-Director Miriam Ticktin was a lecturer for the The Committee on Social Theory’s Spring Lecture Series at the University of Kentucky. Her talk was titled “What Does Innocence Have to do with Justice?”. More info at https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/committee-social-theory-spring-lecture-series
Inaugurating the spring semester of the Zolberg Institute’s 2015-2016 Lecture Series, the visiting scholar Nancy Hiemstra gave the “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of the U.S. Immigration Enforcement.” The talk is now available online. Watch it!
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As thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing violence and poverty arrived in Europe last year, many policy makers and media outlets portrayed thousands of desperate, traumatized people—many of them children—as “criminals” and “terrorists” who threatened Western security and values. Not only does such inflammatory and dehumanizing rhetoric hamper efforts at addressing a pressing humanitarian issue, it
Visiting Scholar Application Guidelines The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) welcomes applications for the position of Visiting Scholar for the 2016-2017 academic year, from individuals whose research, teaching and work intersects the fields of migration studies and mobility, broadly construed. With that, we are accepting applications from scholars who are committed to the
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Co-Director Alexandra Delano has just published a piece in Public Seminar regarding Donald Trump’s stand on Mexico. Read more at http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/02/are-mexicos-actions-as-loud-as-trumps-words/#.VrPY0jYrLPB
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Visiting Scholar Nancy Hiemstra has published an article on the Huffintong Post on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ s deportation of Central American immigrants. Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-hiemstra/this-is-fear-ice-raids-on_b_8939568.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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