The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights provides Child Advocates for unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody. The Young Center’s model uses volunteer Child Advocates who undergo a Young Center training, meet with a child on a weekly basis, and learn the child’s story, all supervised and supported by Young Center staff. Please click on the …
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The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to “Child Migrants and Zones of Exception,” a talk by Jacqueline Bhabha. The event is part of ZIMM 2014-15 Lecture Series: “Rethinking Refugee Spaces: Architecture, Design, and Politics,” and co-sponsored by The Global Studies program at The New School. It will take place October 20th at 4pm in Wolff …
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Ernesto Castañeda, visiting scholar at the Zolberg Center (2014-2015) writes in the Scholars Strategy Network about what is currently being called a “crisis” at the US-Mexico border, given the increased number of minors arriving from Central America. To read the full article “There is No Immigration Security Threat That Reform with an Earned Path to Citizenship Cannot …
The research cluster for Transnational Social Support at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is calling for papers for two upcoming special issues and for a book review section in their journal “Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal” (TSR). Please find the hyperlinks to pdfs of the call for papers below: Call …
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Global Studies faculty and students featured in this Feet in Two Worlds Podcast on Mexican Youth in New York: http://fi2w.org/2013/07/29/podcast-mexican-youth-in-new-york-drop-out-in-record-numbers/ Fi2W is featuring stories by students in the Feet in 2 Worlds journalism course at The New School. Mexican students have the highest dropout rate of any major group in New York City public …
The open access journal Social Inclusion (http://www.librelloph.com/socialinclusion) will launch a special issue under the title: “Migrant Youth, Intercultural Relations and the Challenges of Social Inclusion” This special issue will be edited by Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr. Anna Halafoff. Professor Fethi Mansouri is the Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, …
‘Illegality, youth and belonging’ conference to be held at the University of Harvard on 25-26 October http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/iris/2013/call-for-papers-illegality-youth-and-belonging.pdf The event is jointly organised by the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and the Centre …
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