Miriam Ticktin Keynotes at Conferences on Humanitarianism and Care

Miriam Ticktin, co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, delivered the keynote address at conferences in the Fall 2014 on humanitarianism and care.

During the conference “Exceptional welfare: Dilemmas in/of irregular migration” in Bergen (Norway) November 19-21, co-director Ticktin gave a talk entitled “Care Beyond Welfare?”

“Humanitarianism and Beyond: the Pasts and Futures of Care” is the title of the keynote talk she delivered at the conference “New Spirits of Humanitarianism – Genealogies, Practices, Responses,” which took place at the University of Western Sydney (Australia), December 8-10 2014.

Book Talk: A Thousand Tiny Cuts with Sahana Ghosh

April 22, 2024

Join the Zolberg Institute and Dr. Sahana Ghosh online on Friday, April 19 for a conversation about her book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands. Dr. Ghosh’s first book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands and shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the meaning and management of threat and security in relation to mobility.

Book Talk: The New Minority with Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie

March 18, 2024

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”.

Book Talk: War Work and Want with Randall Hansen

February 29, 2024

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.

Migrants in Waiting in Mexico

February 1, 2024

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.