In the current context of a politics that normalizes cruelty and violence against migrants and racialized groups at large, how can we think beyond polarization and dehumanization towards a shared politic?

Join Amarela Varela and Eileen Truaux, co-editors of Journalism and Human Mobility: Building a New Narrative on Migration, in conversation with Alex Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso, co-editors of New Narratives of the Peopling of America as they discuss the challenges of current migration policies and debates, and how alternative narratives can gain space and support the ushering of new political horizons.

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Carolina Aguilar Román

Member, Narrativas de Frontera desde los Feminismos

Loren Landau

Professor of Migration and Development, the University of Oxford

Natasha Iskander

Associate Professor of Sociology & James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU

Amarela Varela

Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México

Eileen Truaux

Journalist and Writer, specialized in Migration and Politics

Alexandra Délano Alonso

Senior Research Fellow

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Senior Research Fellow

Executive Dean, The New School for Social Research

University Professor