Watch Judith Butler's keynote address "Grievability and Resistance" and the “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” panel - Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Watch Judith Butler’s keynote address “Grievability and Resistance” and the “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” panel

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to having hosted the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address entitled “Grivability and Resistance” by Judith Butler. Part of Institute’s 2016-2017 Lecture Series, the panel discussion features authors Maurizio Albahari, Alexandra Délano, Jenny Edkins, Burkhard Liebsch, and Benjamin Nienass, followed by comments from Banu Bargu and Anne McNevin. The keynote address and the panel are now available online. Watch it!

The Shifting Border: Dialogue with Ayelet Schacher – 3/24/2020

February 2, 2020

Ayelet Shacher is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs at Toronto University. Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EDT)Starr Foundation Hall, U L102, University Center63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to

Searching for Cosmopolis: Living Together, Apart – 2/11/2020

February 2, 2020

Professor Joseph Heathcott’s Laboratories of the Global City examines spaces of encounter and the people who inhabit and shape them. Using six neighborhoods remade by immigration over the last century (Jackson Heights in New York; Peckham in London; St. Gilles in Brussels; Belleville in Paris; San Telmo in Buenos Aires; and Beyoglu in Istanbul), he

Dreaming and legislating: A conversation with New York State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz

October 15, 2019

Tempest Tossed returns! Catalina Cruz, the first DREAMER in the New York State Assembly, joins Alex Aleinikoff to talk about immigration policy, differences between campaigning and governing, and how she advocates for her Queens, NY district and community. “There is a lot of trauma that goes unspoken with having had to live as an undocumented

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

October 1, 2019

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

(Im)migration and Urban Politics

April 27, 2022

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

Book Discussion: Majority Minority

April 5, 2022

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

Book Discussion: Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism

April 5, 2022

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

Decolonizing Refugee Governance

April 5, 2022

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