Announcements - Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

‘The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime’

2019 / Announcements, Event, Research and Publications

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, and Leah Zamore, director of NYU’s Center for International Cooperation’s Humanitarian Crises program, have co-authored a new book on reforming the international refugee regime. The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime, published by Stanford University Press, argues that the international refugee regime is …

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‘Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru’ Book Launch and Discussion with Julia C. Morris

2023, Asylum, Book Launch, discussion, Extraction / Event, Event Recaps and Recordings

Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru goes behind the scenes to shed light on the everyday running of the offshore asylum industry in Nauru and uncover what really happens underneath the headlines. Morris illuminates how refugee rights activism and #RefugeesWelcome-style movements are caught up in the hardening of border enforcement operations worldwide, calling for freedom of movement that goes beyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering.

Asylum Betrayed: Biden’s Border Politics and Title 42

2023, Asylum, Biden Administration, Borders, Southern Border, title 42, US Immigration / Event, Event Recaps and Recordings

This webinar examines the Biden policies and current court cases challenging Title 42 expulsions. We will hear from experts on why and how the right to asylum should be restored at the US southwest border.

The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty

2022, Borders, event recap, sovereignty / Event, Event Recaps and Recordings

In this talk, Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves will discuss their edited book The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination Beyond the State (Cornell University Press, 2021). Victoria Hattam will moderate.

The Responsibility of the International Community in Situations of Human Mobility Due to Environmental Causes

2022, Environmental Mobility, Global Governanace, Working Papers / Research and Publications, Working Papers

T. Alexander Aleinikoff Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School Chair, KNOMAD Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration Susan Martin Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University KEY WORDS: Environmental Mobility; Climate-Induced Migration; Global Governance; Climate Change and Environmental Degradation; Disaster Risk Reduction; Migration and Displacement; Development; …

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(Im)migration and Urban Politics

2022, book discussion, Cities, discussion, event, Immigration, urban politics, urbanism / Event, Webinars

How do migrants shape the cities we live in? How do migrants’ presence and agency relate to pressing urban challenges, such as gentrification and lack of affordable housing? In this event, Ayşe Çağlar and Sophie Gonick reflect on these and other questions that bring the migrant experience to the center of how we understand urban …

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Book Discussion: Majority Minority

2022, book discussion, demography, discussion, event, Identity / Event, Webinars

How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of the United States and other countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a majority minority milestone, where the original ethnic or religious majority loses its numerical advantage to one or more foreign-origin minority groups. Until …

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Book Discussion: Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism

2022, discussion, event, India, Migrant Labor and Workers, protection / Event, Webinars

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production in garment value chains in India and …

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Decolonizing Refugee Governance

2022, discussion, event, GPIA, refugee protection, Refugees / Event, Webinars

As political instability around the world displaces larger and larger numbers of people, the international community struggles to institute an adequate and equitable arrangement to meet its obligations to protect refugees; repatriation is more often than not impossible, refugees face deplorable conditions in camps as well as inadequate paths to local integration and resettlement, and burden sharing …

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Migration, Displacement and Citizenship in an Urban World

2021, Cities, Conference, Displacement, Migration / Announcements, Conference, Event

More than ever, the city is the locus of human mobility. The majority of the world’s migrants and forcibly displaced live in urban areas. Migration continues to be a fundamental process to the development and growth of cities. The role of cities in shaping mobility and that of migrants in shaping cities have been increasingly …

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Zolberg-IRC Fellows – Fall 2021

2021, Student Fellowships, Zolberg-IRC Fellow / Announcements, People, Student Fellow

Meet the Fall 2020 Zolberg-IRC Fellows.