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?
Passport Power: Mobility Diplomacy and Citizenship Markets in the Gulf Read More »
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.
From Forced Migration to Displacement? Read More »
November 6, 1:00PM – 2:30PM | 63 Fifth Avenue, UL104
Join the Zolberg Institute for a discussion with Emrah Yıldız, author of Zainab’s Traffic.
Book Talk: Zainab’s Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders Read More »
October 21, 6:00PM – 7:00PM | ONLINE The NSSR and Eugene Lang College Dean’s Offices and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invite you to join a conversation on immigration and the U.S. presidential election with Alexandra Délano Alonso, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, moderated by Alex Aleinikoff, NSSR Executive Dean and Director of the
ONLINE | Immigration and the U.S. Presidential Election Read More »
The migration-memory nexus in the human and social sciences has traditionally been conceptualized to analyze the role of collective and individual memory in shaping the migration experience, particularly in terms of ethno-national belonging. Less attention has been paid to the possible forms of inter-diasporic solidarity involving memory practices. However, recent contributions in memory and diaspora
Migration, Diaspora, and Mnemonic Solidarity Read More »
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses
Film Screening: “No Other Land” Read More »
October 10, 2024 – 6:00pm – 8:30pm – Wollman Hall The Struggles for Memory against Violences in Mexico documents and analyzes the diversity of collective memory projects throughout Mexico since the start of the “war against drug cartels”, in a context of various intersecting and ongoing forms of violence. There are now more than 110,000 victims
Book Launch: Struggles for Memory against Violence in Mexico Read More »
In New Narratives on the Peopling of America, editors T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso present an extraordinary collection of original essays that reshape our understanding of the peopling of the United States. This thought-provoking volume goes beyond conventional accounts of immigration by reexamining narratives about foreign-born populations in the United States. It situates them as part of a larger story of forced displacement and dispossession that needs to include indigenous people, enslaved persons, deported and returned migrants, and those residing in territories and foreign nations acquired by the United States.
The diverse range of contributors—which include academics, journalists, artists, legal scholars, and activists—confront complex topics such as migration, racial justice, tribal sovereignty, and the pursuit of equality. As nationalism, globalization, and economic challenges reshape the social and political landscape, this timely volume calls for a reevaluation and reconstruction of national narratives of belonging. Challenging nativist tropes and offering broader understandings of collective history, this pathbreaking book centers issues of race and dispossession in the story of the American people.
New Narratives on the Peopling of America is an essential resource for students and a compelling read for general readers seeking a deeper understanding of the complex tapestry of American identity.
Book Launch: New Narratives on the Peopling of America Read More »
In coming years, scores of millions of people will be forced from their homes because of the effects of the climate crisis and other environmental events. While there is general recognition that those displaced by climate events merit assistance and protection, the existing international refugee regime does not provide an adequate framework for action. This article proposes an approach that focuses on the fact of displacement due to the climate crisis and embraces a right not to be displaced. It thus centers questions of accountability and root causes and embeds claims to climate justice in discussions of regime reform. Climate displacement provides an opportunity—indeed, the necessity—for a fundamental rethinking of the prevailing protection paradigm.
Climate-Induced Displacement and the International Protection of Forced Migrants Read More »
