T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Author at Public Seminar

Podcast

The Role of States and Localities

Episode 7

June 13, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

This episode explores how state and local governments significantly impact immigrants through policies that either support or resist federal enforcement. Some jurisdictions implement sanctuary measures to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities and promote inclusion, such as offering in-state tuition to undocumented students. Under the Trump administration, there has been ...

Podcast

What of the “Homeless, Tempest Tost”?

Episode 6

May 30, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

This week, our hosts explore the closing of the US refugee resettlement program, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and the asylum process. Our guest speaker is Mark Hetfield, President of HIAS.

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Mass Deportation

Episode 5

May 13, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In this episode, the hosts evaluate the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations—their feasibility, legality, and likely consequences—with guest Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council.

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Birthright Citizenship

Episode 4

April 29, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In Episode 4, Amanda Frost discusses the Trump Administration’s desire to end birthright citizenship.

Podcast

Alien Enemies Act

Episode 3

April 17, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

In Episode 3, the Unsettled hosts delve into the Alien Enemies Act of 1789, with guest speakers Liza Goitein and Katherine Yon Ebright.

Podcast

The Khalil Case and the Constitution

Episode 2

April 15, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

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.

Podcast

Introducing Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times

Episode 1

April 10, 2025 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina M Rodríguez

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, ...

Migration

Immigration and the US Presidential Election

A conversation on the US-Mexico border, inflammatory rhetoric, and policies that can serve migrants and citizens alike

October 30, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso

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 ...

Immigration and the US Presidential Election

Indigenous Peoples

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

April 3, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Alexandra Délano Alonso and Paloma Griffin

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....

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Europe & Central Asia

What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Ways to improve the global protection regime

March 23, 2022 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

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. ...

What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Migration

Can Refugee Scholars Hold the Line?

Why the theoretical line that separates forced migrants from other persons on the move may not be sustainable

June 21, 2021 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

_____ 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 ...

Migration

The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

What states could not do on their own, the virus has completed

May 19, 2020 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

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 ...