Alien Enemies Act
Episode 3
In Episode 3, the Unsettled hosts delve into the Alien Enemies Act of 1789, with guest speakers Liza Goitein and Katherine Yon Ebright.
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The Khalil Case and the Constitution
Episode 2
Join hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez for a conversation with guest Stephen I. Vladeck about the Mahmoud Khalil Case, deportation power, and the Constitution.
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Introducing Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times
Episode 1
In the first episode of Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times, hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez discuss Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities. The show adopts a broad perspective, seeing immigration policies in the context of constitutional law and principles, ...
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Immigration and the US Presidential Election
A conversation on the US-Mexico border, inflammatory rhetoric, and policies that can serve migrants and citizens alike
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have emphasized US-Mexico border security as one of the top concerns of their 2024 presidential campaigns. Why? In a conversation hosted by the New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, politics and global studies professor ...
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Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America
A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration
T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso chat with Paloma Griffin about challenging conventional stories of immigration in their book NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA....
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What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
Ways to improve the global protection regime
The international refugee regime lacks a global responsibility-sharing system; so the vast majority of the world’s refugees stay—for years and years—in the states to which they first flee. ...
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Can Refugee Scholars Hold the Line?
Why the theoretical line that separates forced migrants from other persons on the move may not be sustainable
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My title doesn’t refer to whether refugee scholars should help others fend off attacks from governments and populist parties that are intent on destroying the international protection regimes we study. Most of us are already so engaged.
Rather, I am asking a conceptual question about the nature of refugee scholarship: does ...
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The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime
What states could not do on their own, the virus has completed
For the past decade or so, immigration advocates in the global North have seen their primary opponents as populist parties and politicians, who rose to power on assertions that immigration is economically and demographically harmful to advanced democracies. It has been a long, drawn-out battle and, since Brexit and the ...
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The Great Immobility
Less obvious is the lesson we could come to learn about mobility.
At first glance, the restrictions on travel to the United States seem to affirm a common trope: our borders need to be sealed against immigrants who would do us harm. Build the Wall; stop the germs!
But there is another ...
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Trump’s War on Asylum
In the summer of 2019, the Administration put in place a policy that denies asylum to any person who has traveled through another country and failed to request asylum in the transit state. It has announced a reduction of refugee admissions to 18,000, a more than 80% cut from the ...
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In the Shadow of Auschwitz
Reflections on America’s Asylum Policies in the Age of Trump
This odd combination of events sparked a number of thoughts which I offer now after further reflection. I will not enter into the discussion of whether the detention facilities to which children have been confined in the U.S. are or are not similar to concentration camps; nor am I arguing ...
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A Regional Approach for Central American Asylum Seekers
The U.S. should pursue a policy that strengthens ties with neighbors
The White House leaked documents to the Washington Post yesterdaytrying to show that Mexico has in fact agreed to a significant crackdown on its southern border and that Trump remains ready to impose the tariffs, or insist on the safe third country agreement, if the numbers at the U.S. border do not decline ...
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