Zolberg Center visiting scholar, Ernesto Castañeda, writes about the "crisis" at the US-Mexico border - Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility

Zolberg Center visiting scholar, Ernesto Castañeda, writes about the “crisis” at the US-Mexico border

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 Address”, please visit:

http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/page/there-no-immigration-security-threat-reform-earned-path-citizenship-cannot-address

State of Exception/Estado de Excepcion looks at the migrant experience on the US-Mexico border

December 15, 2016

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility invites you to the exhibition State of Exception/Estado de Excepción at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center which looks at the migrant experience on the US-Mexico border. State of Exception/Estado de Excepción presents traces of the human experience—objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants on their journey into the U.S.

Volunteer Opportunity with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

March 8, 2016

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

Co-Director Alexandra Délano interviewed on Mexican indigenous migration to the US

August 11, 2015

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

Humanities Action Lab Launch – January 05 and 06

December 22, 2014

As part of a two-day launch of its Humanities Action Lab (HAL), The New School initiates the HAL: Global Dialogues project, co-sponsored by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. “Global Dialogues: Mass Incarceration and Public Memory” will happen January 05 at 6pm. This is a moderated conversation between Glenn E. Martin (JustLeadershipUSA), Marc Mauer (Sentencing Project) and Tyrone