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Migrants in Waiting in Mexico
Under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico has abandoned plans for a more humane migration policy. Faced with increasing flows of asylum seekers from elsewhere in the hemisphere, the Mexican government has adopted a strategy of control and enforcement that mirrors the US approach.
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.
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.
Non-Citizen Voting: The Evolving Case of New York City, The Case of Local Law 11
Vasiliki Malouchou Kanellopoulou PhD Candidate in Politics, The New School for Social Research Patrich Co PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Washington Cynthia Golembeski PhD Candidate in Public and Urban Policy The New School for Social ResearchResearch Specialist, The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Politics Tim Komatsu PhD Candidate in Political
Non-Citizen Voting: The Evolving Case of New York City, Context and Historical Case Studies
Connor SmithPhD Candidate in Politics, The New School for Social ResearchMelamid Scholar, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Patrich CoPhD Candidate in Politcal Science, University of Washington Cynthia GolembeskiPhD Candidate in Public and Urban Policy The New School for Social ResearchResearch Specialist, The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and
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.