Monday, April 28, 2025, 2:00PM to 5:00PM (EDT) Kellen Auditorium N10166 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Join us for a film screening of “BORDERLAND | The Line Within,” followed by a Q&A with director and producer, Paco de Onís and Pamela Yates. The film’s protagonists, Gaspar and Francisco, will join virtually for this discussion.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12:00PM to 2:00PM (EDT) 79 5th AveRm 1618 Presented by Maurice Stierl (Osnabrück University). That states do not systematically count, trace or identify the dead and disappeared of migration across border zones has long been noted. Interdisciplinary scholarship has frequently drawn from Judith Butler’s (2004) concept of ‘un/grievability’ to characterise the lack of
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 1:30PM to 3:00PM (EST) 79 5th AveRm 1618 Today, globalization can be understood as the interdependence of technology, institutions, means of production and finance, goods, people, and economic flows, transcending traditional borders and political boundaries. As transnational connections, platformization of spaces, and interdependencies strengthen, although sometimes conflictually and with significant inequalities
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 4:00PM to 5:30PM (EDT) The New School University Center Room UL104 A uniquely broad and fair-minded guide to making immigration policy ethical. Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex responses to the phenomenon. Too many
ONLINE | March 7, 2025 | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Join leading scholars of constitutional law, history, and immigration policy for an in-depth conversation on the origins, evolution, and contemporary significance of birthright citizenship in the United States hosted by The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Presented by Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
This five-day workshop explores participatory visual methods that help decenter the researcher in social science research, amplifying the voices of migrant and refugee youth. Participants will gain hands-on experience with PhotoVoice, a method that empowers participants to document their own lived experiences through photography, and be introduced to video-cued ethnography, which uses video recordings to elicit
February 10, 2025 | 2:30PM to 4:00PM 79 5th Ave, FL 16, Room D1618 In order to challenge the existing narratives surrounding refugee and migrant women, this seminar presents the outcomes of two interrelated projects that address women’s mobility across borders. These projects utilize case studies focusing on forced migration across the central Mediterranean route,
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.
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?
