Call for Applications: Research Assistant

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility is seeking a Research Assistant.

The Research Assistant will provide support to the faculty and staff of the Institute. Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: planning and organizing student fellow activities, providing event promotion and coordination assistance, and designing content for the Institute’s online platforms. Candidates should have demonstrated skills or interest in event planning, marketing, and basic web editing.

Up to 20 hours/week, $18.40/hour. To apply, please submit your CV, cover letter, and contact information of two references to Cayce Pack, Associate Director of the Zolberg Institute, at packc@newschool.edu by Monday, August 13. Due to the number of applicants, only successful applicants will be contacted.

Border Tragedies–A Tempest Tossed Essay by Alex Aleinikoff on Trump border policies

December 20, 2018

The death of 7 year old Jakelin Caal while in Border Patrol custody is a tragedy, and it is sadly emblematic of Trump Administration border policies that have devastated families, undermined U.S. asylum laws and betrayed traditional American values. Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School, takes

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Gender Asylum

November 27, 2018

Two actions of the Trump Administration have sought to make it practically impossible for women who are victims of intimate partner violence to apply for and be granted asylum in the United States. The first is an action by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to overturn a decision of the Board of Immigration appeals granting asylum to

Tempest Tossed Pre-Election Edition: All Trump all the time— a conversation with Roberto Suro, professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California

November 2, 2018

President Trump has dominated the pre-election news by returning to a theme that probably brought him the Presidency— immigration. Roberto Suro discusses the politics of the Trump strategy, the failure of an effective response from the Democrats, and how older narratives of immigration may not work for the current historical moment.

Inciting Fear: Trump and the “Caravan”–a conversation with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute

October 29, 2018

According to Donald Trump, a group of several thousand Hondurans fleeing violence and poverty who are on foot and 1000 miles from the US border are a threat to US national security and sovereignty. Who is part of the “caravan”? Why have they left Honduras? What are their prospects for reaching the US border? What