Join the Zolberg Institute on Wednesday, April 24 at 12:30 PM ET for a conversation with authors Maurice Crule and Frans Leli about their 2023 book, “The New Minority: People without a Migration Background in the Superdiverse City”.
Join us online for a conversation with Dr. Randall Hansen, author of War Work and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution.
Under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico has abandoned plans for a more humane migration policy. Faced with increasing flows of asylum seekers from elsewhere in the hemisphere, the Mexican government has adopted a strategy of control and enforcement that mirrors the US approach.
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor’s role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said’s residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal’s northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment.
