Call For Applications: Summer Research Fund

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility is pleased to announce summer research funding for students at The New School. This will provide support for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing work and scholarship related to the themes of migration and mobility. Students may request up to $1,000 per project application. Award amounts will be determined by the project budget, number of awards issued, and availability of funds. Funds may be used for travel and other research related expenses.

Recipients of the grants will be required to submit a report to the Zolberg Institute in Fall 2018 detailing their project progress, and may be invited to present their work at student brown-bag sessions.

To apply, students should submit a project narrative (no more than 500 words), budget, and CV to Cayce Pack, Associate Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, at packc@newschool.edu. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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