Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Programs of Anthropology, History, and French and Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) and …
Professor Teresa Ghilarducci from the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research has recently published an article on The Atlantic concerning the possible consequences that the current migratory movement could have on the European labor market. Read more at http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/what-effect-will-migration-have-on-european-wages/404473/
Jason De León will give a lecture entitled “The Land of Open Graves: Necroviolence and the Politics of Migrant Death in the Arizona Desert”. The event will be held in the Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, 63 5th Avenue Building (University Center), Lower Level, room UL 105. Since the mid-1990s’, the U.S. federal government …
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility proudly announces “Reimagine Belonging.” The event co-sponsored by the Zolberg Institute is organized by With Wings and Roots, and marks the launch of the interactive website ReimagineBelonging.org. Visitors will attend a panel discussion on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and visions of citizenship; explore an installation of …
Reimagine Belonging – With Wings and Roots – September 19th at 5.30pm Read More »
In an interview to the Mexican newspaper Excélsior, the co-Director Alexandra Délano speaks about the Mexican indigenous migration to the United States. While the indigenous population make up for a fifth of the Mexican migrants to the US, many of this migrant population do not speak English nor Spanish. Co-Director Délano highlighted that, in face of weak institutional protection, these migrants organize …
Co-Director Alexandra Délano interviewed on Mexican indigenous migration to the US Read More »
The American Sociological Association International Migration announces the Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award: Ariela Schachter for “A Change of Heart or Change of Address? The Geographic Sorting of Whites’ Attitudes towards Immigrants.” Other ASA International Migration section awards are: Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award: FitzGerald, David and David Cook-Martín. 2014. Culling the Masses: The Democratic …
On Wednesday, June 10th, Professor Miriam Ticktin, co-director of the Zolberg Institute, gave this year’s Elizabeth Colson Lecture at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. The Colson Lecture is a prestigious annual event that the University of Oxford hosts to highlight and showcase innovative, timely and thought provoking work in the interdisciplinary field of …
This three-day event is organized by The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) in partinership with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM). QDEP is a collective alternative to detention program and community organizing project for trans/queer/HIV+ immigrant detainees, undocumented folks, asylum seekers and their families in New York City. QDEP a member of the Detention Watch …
by Michelle Weitzel PhD student in the Politics Department at the New School for Social Research Speaking at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility on April 21, 2015, Professor Michel Agier (Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) sketched a three-part scene that unfolded at the margins of the port zone in Patras, Greece: in …
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to the talk “The Dark Side of Modernity and the Issue of Citizenship” by Angelo Ventrone. The event is co-sponsored by the History Deparment and the Politics Department. Friday May 1st 2015 at 12pm Klein Conference Room (510) 66 West 12th street, New York NY
