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.
Dr. Nina Glick-Schiller, Visiting Scholar at the Zolberg Institute, gave the keynote address on the second day of the Summit. Watch below:
Originally delivered on Friday, February 2, 2024.
program of events
Day 1: Thursday, February 1, 2024
Day 2: Friday, February 2, 2024
Panel discussions
Taking Stock of Where We Are
The panel provides a look into recent developments in the city’s response to asylum seekers, policies that have been enacted, and others that have been curtailed. Has the crisis been averted? Is the city/how is the city preparing for future population influxes? Are there specific lessons learned?
From Emergency to Sustainable Responses
This panel looks at the current moment and aims to discuss what sustainable responses to migration could look like through new policies, partnerships, and the spaces that civil society, mutual-aid organizations, support networks, government, and academia have in shaping changes in the current immigration context.
Housing
This panel will take as a starting point the arrival of asylum seekers in New York, which has brought under new light the housing struggles that the city has been grappling with for decades. This panel will discuss the opportunity to address the housing challenges for migrant communities (and New Yorkers more broadly).
Work
This panel aims to offer a discussion about work challenges that migrant communities are facing (working permits, fair wage, wage theft, discrimination) and organizing around worker’s rights. The work of migrant communities has been recently deemed essential. However, the challenges and struggles that immigrant communities are facing remain unaddressed. Featuring activists and experts to discuss the role of migrant communities in fighting discrimination and achieving better work conditions and rights.
Changing the Narrative
Highlighting how we reframe issues concerning migrant rights and value their contributions to the city.
Pictures from the event
Speaker bios
More information about speakers, panelists, and moderators is available here:
Partners and organizations
A list of activist groups, community-based organizations, institutes, and schools participating in the NYC Partnering for Migration Summit is included below:
- African Communities Together
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Catholic Charities
- The Center for Migration Studies
- City University of New York (CUNY)
- Documented
- Fordham University
- Make the Road New York
- Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
- Mixteca
- The New School for Social Research
- New York City Department of Homeless Services, Public Artist in Residence
- New York Immigration Coalition
- Parsons School of Design Housing Justice Lab
- Worker’s Justice Project
- The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
Presented by The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research and Fordham University.