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
The Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University invites applications for a non-tenure track post-doctoral teaching fellowship in The Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University invites applications for a non-tenure track post-doctoral teaching fellowship in immigration, immigrant policy, and Latino politics. Proficiency in Spanish is desirable. The post-doctoral fellow will
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ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Vicki Squire: “The Violence of Border Security: Migrant Deaths Across Deserts and Seas” March 14th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. The violence of border security practices is no more evident than in the phenomena of migrant deaths
The Zolberg Institute in Migration and Mobility and the Sociology Department Present: Religion, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Israel Workshop Horit Peled & Yoav Peled The Religionization of Israeli Society An examination of the growing saliency of religious personalities, religious themes, and the religious outlook in Jewish Israeli society, in order to test the argument that
HOW DID WE GET HERE? THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE U.S. IMMIGRATION DEBATE A one-day conference sponsored by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility of the New School for Social Research, and the Department of Historical Studies of Eugene Lang College, The New School. FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM The New School
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School are pleased to present the 34th Social Research conference, “The Invasive Other,” on Wednesday, April 20, and Thursday April 21, at The New School in New York City. This conference is grounded in the premise that while seemingly of different orders, invasive others — whether
As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. His books (among themJust and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company
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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The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC) are pleased to announce: The second annual Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation Across Borders will take place from June 5-24, 2016 in Quito, Ecuador at FLACSO, with graduate-level credit issued
