Monday, April 28, 2025, 2:00PM to 5:00PM (EDT) Kellen Auditorium N10166 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Join us for a film screening of “BORDERLAND | The Line Within,” followed by a Q&A with director and producer, Paco de Onís and Pamela Yates. The film’s protagonists, Gaspar and Francisco, will join virtually for this discussion. […]
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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 »
Join the Zolberg Institute and Dr. Sahana Ghosh online on Friday, April 19 for a conversation about her book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands. Dr. Ghosh’s first book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands and shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the meaning and management of threat and security in relation to mobility.
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This webinar examines the Biden policies and current court cases challenging Title 42 expulsions. We will hear from experts on why and how the right to asylum should be restored at the US southwest border.
Asylum Betrayed: Biden’s Border Politics and Title 42 Read More »
In this talk, Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves will discuss their edited book The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination Beyond the State (Cornell University Press, 2021). Victoria Hattam will moderate.
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Citation: Migration and Society: Advances in Research 4 (2021): 16-18 © The Authors doi:10.3167/arms.2021.040103 Download the pdf Abstract: In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including
Author: Alexandra Délano Alonso Citation: Migration and Society: Advances in Research 4 (2021): 84–98 © The Authors doi:10.3167/arms.2021.040109 Download the pdf Abstract: While current interpretations of sanctuary are most often associated with practices to protect, support, and accompany migrants with precarious status in countries of destination in the Global North, debates around the concept
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Photo Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock I met Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo through a colleague and advocate for migrants’ and refugees’ human rights who works in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The two of them had fled Guatemala in June 2019. Travelling with a larger group of Central Americans going north, it took them twenty days to
The 2016 Neil Postman Graduate Conference is themed Boundary Condition and features Prof. Achille Mbembe as keynote speaker. This year’s conference is introduced by screening of films that ethnographically address the issue of boundary formations. The New School student Daryl Meador’s film “Heroica Matamoros: Cycling, Affectivity and Film on the US-Mexico Border” will be shown. For detailed schedule and
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by Michelle Weitzel PhD student in the Politics Department at the New School for Social Research Speaking at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility on April 21, 2015, Professor Michel Agier (Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) sketched a three-part scene that unfolded at the margins of the port zone in Patras, Greece: in
