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The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School supports critical and applied scholarship on issues of migration and mobility, and fosters opportunities for meaningful action.

The Institute is a preeminent space for leading academics, practitioners and policymakers to reframe the discussion of migration and mobility, and the impact it has on human rights, economics, borders, and mobility. We bring together a diverse set of talents and skills from The New School community to rethink human mobility in innovative ways, advancing debates about migration and claims for social justice.

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  • Just Released: The Arc of Protection

    Just Released: The Arc of Protection

    We’re proud to be partnering with Public Seminar Books to publish a draft of a pathbreaking study of the international…

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  • Experiences from the Field: Zolberg- IRC Fellow Holly Dowell Shares

    Experiences from the Field: Zolberg- IRC Fellow Holly Dowell Shares

    Earlier this year, one of our Zolberg- IRC Fellows, Holly Dowell, spent two weeks in the field with the International…

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  • Join the Conversation: The Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Refugees

    Join the Conversation: The Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Refugees

    A forum for discussion and commentary on the “zero draft” of the has been opened on the Forced Migration Forum….

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  • Announcing Amman Spring Intensive

    Announcing Amman Spring Intensive

    We are pleased to announce that Julia Morris, Zolberg Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, will be leading a Fieldwork Spring Intensive in…

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  • Call For Applications: Summer Research Fund

    Call For Applications: Summer Research Fund

  • We’re Hiring: Zolberg Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow on Climate and Migration
  • Global Compact on Refugees Second Draft Released
  • Alex Aleinikoff on “Displaced” Podcast
  • RSVP Today: Conference on Climate, Cities and Migration

Events at the Zolberg Institute

  • La Cocina de Las Patronas: A Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

  • Anonymous Brown Bodies: The Productive Power of the Deadly US-Mexico Border

  • Transnational Sanctuary Keynote Panel: Ecologies of Migrant Care and the Politics of Solidarity 

  • Making the Global Compacts Work: What future for refugees and migrants?

  • Conference on Cities, Climate and Migration

  • Valeria Luiselli and mónica teresa ortiz: Readings and Conversation

  • Rainer Bauböck: Is Free Movement a Human or a Citizenship Right?

  • Expanded Sanctuary

  • Les Sauteurs (Those Who Jump): Screening and Discussion

  • “Which Way Home”: Film Screening and Discussion

More events

Research and Publications
Global Compact on Refugees Second Draft Released

Global Compact on Refugees Second Draft Released

Read here the latest update to the developing framework for international support of refugees, their host countries and communities.

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  • Experiences from the Field: Zolberg- IRC Fellow Holly Dowell Shares
  • The Experts Initiative on the Global Compact on Refugees: Conclusions and Explanatory Note
  • Alex Aleinikoff Blogging from the High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges
  • Press Release: Global Broadband Plan for Refugees
  • Responsibility-sharing and mobility: two ideas for the second consultation on the Global Compact on Refugees

  • Together with the Kaldor Center on International Refugee Law in Australia, Alexander Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute, presents the Global Compact for Refugees and the Global Compact on Migration, both of which urge a better future for refugees.

    Watch the latest in the Kaldor Centre’s milestone Policy Brief series, which brings legal academic rigour to practical contemporary policy questions.

    Speaker Profiles:

    Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff is University Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.

    Prof. Aleinikoff has written widely in the areas of immigration and refugee law and policy, transnational law, citizenship, race, and constitutional law. He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled, The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime (with Leah Zamore). His book Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship was published by Harvard University Press in 2002. He is a co-author of leading legal casebooks on immigration law and forced migration.

    Prof. Aleinikoff served as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (2010-15) and was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he also served as Dean and Executive Vice President of Georgetown University. He was co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the general counsel, and then executive associate commissioner for programs, at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Prof. Aleinikoff taught at the University of Michigan Law School from 1981 to 1997.

    Prof. Aleinikoff received a J.D. from the Yale Law School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts of Sciences in 2014.

    Guy S Goodwin Gill is Professor of Law at UNSW and Acting Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. He is also Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law of the University of Oxford, and practises as a barrister from Blackstone Chambers in London. He has held academic appointments in the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands, and has been a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and the European University Institute in Florence. He has published widely in the areas of international refugee law, human rights law and humanitarian law, child soldiers, and free and fair elections. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a Patron of Asylum Aid in the United Kingdom, was the President of Refugee & Migrant Justice (London) for 13 years, President of the Media Appeals Board of Kosovo from 2000–03, and the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law (1988–2001). Between 1976–88, he worked for UNHCR in various roles, including as Senior Legal Research Officer, Legal Adviser (Europe and North America Bureau), Deputy Chief Resettlement, and Legal Adviser (Australia and New Zealand). He obtained his BA (Honours), MA and doctorate from the University of Oxford.

    Susan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also the Blanche, Edith and Irving Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies at Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University. She previously served as the Director of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration. She currently chairs the Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration for the Knowledge Partnership in Migration and Development (KNOMAD) at the World Bank. Before coming to Georgetown, Dr. Martin served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, established by legislation to advise Congress and the President on U.S. immigration and refugee policy. Previous to this service, she was Director of Research and Policy Studies at the Refugee Policy Group and Research Director at the US Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy.

    Her most recent book publications include International Migration: Evolving Trends from the Early Twentieth Century to the Present; Migration and Humanitarian Crises: Causes, Consequences and Responses; and A Nation of Immigrants. Dr. Martin received her BA in History from Douglass College and her MA and PhD in the History of American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

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    Making the Global Compacts Work: What Future for Refugees and Migrants – Event Recap

  • Join the Zolberg Institute for Professor Rainer Bauböck’s lecture “Is Free Movement a Human or a Citizenship Right?” on March 27, 2018.

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    Is Free Movement a Human or a Citizenship Right? Event Recap

  • Expanded Sanctuary is part of a series of events that explore the possibilities of sanctuary – as ideal, as theory, as practice, as historical proposition, as a vision of social justice for the present.

    Facilitated by the Zolberg Institute Working Group on Expanding Sanctuary and co-sponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies, Urban Studies, and Environmental Studies, Department of Anthropology, this event on March 8th 2018 included speakers from Black Youth Project 100, Make the Road New York, African Communities Together, North Star Fund, Enlace, New York State Youth Leadership Council,  New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, UNdocublack, New Sanctuary Coalition, DRUM, Audre Lorde Project, and North Star Fund.

    More information here.

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    Expanded Sanctuary: Event Recap

  • Justice Cuéllar gave an informal, exclusive talk titled “Adaptation Nation: Reflections on Immigration Policy, Social Change, and Federalism in the United States.” This event was open only to New School students, faculty and staff, but live-streamed on the Zolberg Institute Facebook page. Follow us for access to more exciting events!

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    Exclusive Talk with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar: Event Recap

  • The Zolberg Institute was pleased to welcome Professor Daniel Kanstroom, who delivered a talk titled: “Deportation World: The Challenges of a New Global Phenomenon.”

    Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Director of the International Human Rights Program, and Co-Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He teaches Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law. Professor Kanstroom was the founder of the Boston College Immigration and Asylum clinic in which students represent indigent noncitizens and asylum-seekers. Together with his students, he has won many high-profile immigration and asylum cases and has provided counsel for hundreds of clients over more than a decade. Professor Kanstroom’s newest initiative, the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, seeks to conceptualize and develop a new field of law while representing US deportees abroad and undertaking empirical study of the effects of deportation on families and communities.

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    Deportation World: Event Recap

  • Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law, Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar, Director of the International Human Rights Program, and an Associate Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He discusses his latest initiative, Post-Deportation Human Rights Project.

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    Conversation with Professor Dan Kanstroom of Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice

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    Director Aleinikoff sits down with Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol

  • Join us for a live conversation between Jennifer Hyndman, Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and Alex Aleinikoff, Director of Zolberg Institute.

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    Missed Jennifer Hyndman’s talk? Watch her discussion with Alex Aleinikoff here!

  • View the keynote on the future of the protection of displaced persons by Alex Aleinikoff at the “Borders, Fences, Firewalls: Assessing the Changing Relationship of Territory and Institutions,” Conference at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Ethics, Law and Politics. The conference was held from Oct 19-20 in Göttingen, Germany.

    See the conference program and impressions on the conference site.

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    Alex Aleinikoff Keynote at “Borders, Fences & Firewalls” Conference

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    Patrick Weil’s lecture, “Refugees vs. Migrants- Are We Heading to a New Regime of Inequality?”

  • The panel was moderated by James Miller (Professor of Liberal Studies and Politics, and Faculty Director of Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism, The New School). Featured speakers included:

    • Alex Aleinikoff, Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School
    • Julia Foulkes, Professor of History, The New School
    • Roberto Suro, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Director, Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, University of Southern California

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    Statue of Liberty: Changing and Contested Meanings (Event recap)

  • Recently, Director Alex Aleinikoff joined an online briefing with the American Society of International Law, the fifth on the Society’s series on “International Law and the Trump Administration”. This webinar featured former senior U.S. officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations who were responsible for formulating policy and advising the Executive Branch on the United States’ domestic and international obligations towards refugees.

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    Director Aleinikoff Speaks on International Law and the Trump Administration: U.S. Obligations towards Refugees [ASIL Webinar]

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Making the Global Compacts Work: What Future for Refugees and Migrants – Event Recap Is Free Movement a Human or a Citizenship Right? Event Recap Expanded Sanctuary: Event Recap Exclusive Talk with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar: Event Recap Deportation World: Event Recap Conversation with Professor Dan Kanstroom of Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Director Aleinikoff sits down with Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol Missed Jennifer Hyndman’s talk? Watch her discussion with Alex Aleinikoff here! Alex Aleinikoff Keynote at “Borders, Fences & Firewalls” Conference Patrick Weil’s lecture, “Refugees vs. Migrants- Are We Heading to a New Regime of Inequality?” Statue of Liberty: Changing and Contested Meanings (Event recap) Director Aleinikoff Speaks on International Law and the Trump Administration: U.S. Obligations towards Refugees [ASIL Webinar]
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