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.
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.
The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach Read More »
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.
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“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.
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.
U.S. Immigration Policy and the Southwest Border Read More »
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 Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Non-Citizen Voting: The Evolving Case of New York City, The Case of Local Law 11 Read More »
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 Politics Tim KomatsuPhD Candidate in
