New School Migration Scholars Featured in the Special Issue of Politics & Society “The Rights of Noncitizens.”

The Zolberg Center on Global Migration proudly announces the latest issue of Politics & Society.

The special issue “The Rights of Noncitizens” features papers originally presented at the workshop “The Rights of Noncitizens? Immigration, Boundaries, and Citizenship in Contemporary Democratic Politics.” The event, held in 2012 at the New School of Social Research, was co-sponsored by Politics & Society and the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the New School (ICMEC), now named Zolberg Center on Global Migration.

The workshop was organized by David Plotke (NSSR), who also signs the introduction of the special issue. The special issue also includes articles by Antje Ellermann, Els de Graauw, M. Victoria Quiroz Becerra (PhD in Politics, NSSR), Loren B. Landau, Rogers M. Smith and Alexandra Délano (Lang) and Benjamin Nienass (PhD in Politics, NSSR).

Click here to go the special issue: Politics & Society. Special Issue: The Rights of Noncitizens: September 2014; Vol. 42, No. 3.

Humanities Action Lab Launch – January 05 and 06

December 22, 2014

As part of a two-day launch of its Humanities Action Lab (HAL), The New School initiates the HAL: Global Dialogues project, co-sponsored by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. “Global Dialogues: Mass Incarceration and Public Memory” will happen January 05 at 6pm. This is a moderated conversation between Glenn E. Martin (JustLeadershipUSA), Marc Mauer (Sentencing Project) and Tyrone

The Camp as a Space of Political Membership – Nando Sigona – February 17 at 6pm

December 17, 2014

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosts a lecture by Nando Sigona entitled “The Camp as a Space of Political Membership.” The lecture is going to be followed by a discussion by prof. Michel Agier, Professor of Anthropology at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Director of Research at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, and a Visiting

Alexandra Délano Writes on Obama’s Deferred Action Programs

December 9, 2014

Alexandra Délano, co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, writes on the role of the origin country in Obama’s deferred action programs. The post is published on the London School of Economics and Political Science’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy. Please click here to read the the full article “Migrants’ countries of

City of Cities – Dec 12th at 7.30pm

December 5, 2014

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosts the event City of Cities in partnership with Van Alen Institute. Like many great places, New York is a city of cities: It is constantly in flux, its population ever-changing. Each day over one and a half million workers commute into Manhattan, and of New Yorkers, one