Book Talk: War Work and Want with Randall Hansen
Join us online for a conversation with Dr. Randall Hansen, author of War Work and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution.
February 29, 2024
NYC Partnering for Migration Justice Summit
The NYC Partnering for Migration Justice Summit took place on Thursday, February 1 and Friday, February 2, 2024 at The New School. The summit featured voices of artists, activists, organizers, researchers, city officials, and community members from across the city, with participants taking part in panel and roundtable discussions. The purpose of the Summit was to deepen and scale up strong and sustainable collaborations between migrant communities and higher education, by prioritizing the voice of migrants, community activists, and migrant-supporting organizations active in the city.
February 8, 2024
Book Talk: Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said with Lucia Carminati
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor’s role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said’s residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal’s northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment.
January 26, 2024
Book Talk: Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
January 26, 2024
The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach
David FitzGerald will discuss why some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide whom should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What interests and conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception shape people’s options? The Refugee System tells how one Syrian family spread across several countries tried to survive the civil war and live in dignity.
January 25, 2024
Film Screening: We Are Zama Zama
For over a hundred years, South Africa was the largest producer of the world’s gold. More gold has been extracted from its reserves than from all the other mines in the world combined. Ever. We are Zama Zama is a portrait of migrants eking a living in the depths of South Africa’s abandoned gold mines.
January 25, 2024
Film Screening: The Native and the Refugee: Palestine, Turtle Island, and Spaces of Exception
“The Native and the Refugee” is a long-term multimedia project by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny profiling the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. While the existence of such spaces is the result of settler-colonialism (albeit at different stages) and are repositories for its ongoing violence, they also open up new possibilities for resistance and for conceptualizing existence outside the boundaries of the nation-state.
January 25, 2024
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Southwest Border
Over the past several months, we have witnessed the arrival of unprecedented numbers of migrants and asylum seekers at the southwest border of the United States. Many have continued their journey to major US cities across the country, including New York City. As the number of migrants and asylum seekers continues to rise, border politics in Congress have become entangled with controversies over continued military aid to Ukraine and Israel. This expert panel will provide insight into what is happening at the border, examine the issues being debated in Congress, and provide insight into the implications for Biden administration policy.
January 12, 2024
Right To Asylum: Events in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Signing of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility is pleased to host a series of events in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The events will focus on the Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution’.
The day will feature a panel on the current situation regarding asylum seekers and migrants and the future of the asylum system, followed by a film screening. The evening will conclude with an address and Q&A session with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.
November 2, 2023
Navigating New York City’s ‘Migrant Crisis’
Since Spring 2022, New York City has seen the arrival of 100,000 asylum seekers. This sudden and significant influx has tested city resources, bringing homeless shelters to capacity and raising concerns about the city’s ability to provide and welcome its most recent arrivals. The migrant crisis has also reignited essential questions that the city has been grappling with related to shelter, mental health, and the support of vulnerable migrant communities.
September 8, 2023