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Finding Refuge

When Secure Borders Are Not the Answer

May 30, 2017 • by Anne McNevin and Klaus Neumann

As countries in the global North fortify their borders against irregular migrants from the global South, border walls proliferate. Argentina constructed a wall at its border with Paraguay. Hungary recently erected a second, electrified fence at its border with Serbia. And Donald Trump’s administration is still committed to building at ...

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Recovering Community: Part II

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 26, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

In its time at Jules Ferry, the Jungle crossed a threshold in the nature of its transgression as a political subject. This transgression was its establishment of community. What the Jungle came to embody in political form was a common project; common, that is, in two senses of the word. ...

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Casablanca at 75

A Refugee Story

May 25, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Zolberg Institute Presents: Casablanca at 75: A refugee story April 04th, 7pm-10pm, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Room 202, 55 West 13th Street. Casablanca is one of classical Hollywood's greatest romances, but its underlying story concerns the plight of European refugees, an unusually timely, urgent theme for today. This event, which focuses on the ...

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May Day

Washington D.C.

May 24, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Different groups with different themes marched from different places to rally together in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. The largest of these was organized by SEIU and CASA. Its theme was immigration, and current policies opposed to immigration. In addition to unions, religious and Latino groups were ...

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Recovering Community: Part I

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 23, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

We know the scene; there is a gathering, and someone is telling a story. We do not yet know whether these people gathered together form an assembly, if they are a horde or a tribe. But we call them brothers and sisters because they are gathered together and because they ...

Education

Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 22, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Step up. Rise Up. Stand Up. ACT Up. Show Up. Wake Up. Wise Up. Speak Up. The moment we are living in is demanding so much of us: to be present, to listen, to challenge, to act. But how do we respond when everything we stand for is under attack? ...

Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

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When Fascists Break into Parliament

A Reflection on the Crisis in Skopje

May 19, 2017 • by Elena Gagovska

When fascists break into your country’s parliament you feel like you’ve been talking about right-wing populism in academic settings for far too long. You feel like you’ve been talking about the causes and the cures of something just getting underway in the West, all while this is the only kind of ...

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The Politics of Incorporation

The limits of populism in a psychoanalytic perspective

May 17, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

In recent decades, contemporary political philosophy has pathologized the psychological processes involved in politics. Emphasizing rational action, political philosophy has deemed affect, the political imaginary, and dynamics of identification and incorporation negatively, as potential spaces of distortion or social regression. One of the major consequences of this perspective is to reduce ...

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Sweatshop City

Laura Y. Liu

May 16, 2017 • by GIDEST

Laura Y. Liu is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School. Her ongoing research project, Sweatshop City, examines the urban geography of migration, industry, and neighborhood change in New York City.

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Europe’s Nationalist International

Europe’s far-right groups and ideologues have long been collaborating across national borders to further their agendas

May 15, 2017 • by Andrea Mammone

Immediately after Marine Le Pen successfully advanced to the second round of the French Presidential election by beating the candidate from the mainstream right, Italy's far-right leader Matteo Salvini, tweeted a photo of him with the French politician, with the caption "Go Marine." He later added: "it is time get ...

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Educators on Hunger Strike in Turkey

A Call for Solidarity with Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca

May 12, 2017 • by Zeynep Gambetti

OUR CALL TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TO THE PUBLIC Tens of thousands of public employees in Turkey have been dismissed through statutory decrees (KHK) issued under the state of emergency (OHAL) that has been declared using the 15 July 2016 coup attempt as a pretext. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) ...