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Migration

We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too

June 20, 2020 • by Lara Nettelfield and Rebecca Kobrin

Saturday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, honored by the United Nations to raise awareness and educate the public about refugees, their basic rights, their situation around the world, and the responsibilities of states to grant them asylum. The spontaneous protest movement that has engulfed the United States, after millions of ...

We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too

History

Taking Children

An excerpt from Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs

June 8, 2020 • by Laura Briggs

The past stalks the present, the ghost in the machine of memory. This is why history writing matters; it gives us ways to understand the specters already among us and to assemble tools to transform our situation. Things change; the epidemic of child taking in the context of mass incarceration ...

Activism

Photo Essay: The Side Streets

A walk through Manhattan in June, 2020

June 4, 2020 • by Janet Roitman

Fifth Avenue, June 3, 2020, 3:45 p.m. Shuttered. Sixth Avenue, June 3, 2020. Empty. Sixth Avenue, June 2, 2020, 6:20 p.m. Bare, boarded. June 2, 2020, 6:20 p.m. Side streets. June 2, 2020 6 p.m. Sheltering-in-place. Sixth Avenue, June 2, 6: 25 p.m. Bankrupt. June 3, 2020, 4:50 p.m. A shadow of myself. Janet Roitman is a professor ...

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 ...

The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

Migration

Letter from Athens

Liberal democratic institutions have regained their footing, even as Greece faces a fresh refugee crisis amid a global pandemic

April 28, 2020 • by Stan Draenos

At migrant camps on Greek islands facing Turkey, the pandemic could not have hit at a worse time. Beginning last summer, a surge in refugees arriving in wobbly rubber dinghies swelled occupancy at the camps to an alarming 42,000 by the start of 2020. The latest surge was part of Turkish President Tayyip ...

Migration

In Limbo

My journey through the pandemic

April 21, 2020 • by Pawel Knut

That is how my personal journey through the pandemic began. I was spending the academic year in New York City on a Fulbright scholarship at The New School. After living in the city all fall and winter, my wife and I were planning to leave at the end of April. ...

Migration

Borders in the Time of COVID-19

What the pandemic reveals about the regulation of mobility

April 17, 2020 • by Ayelet Shachar

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the significance of borders. While much attention has been paid to debates surrounding Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall,” the current crisis reveals that governments seeking to restrict mobility rely only partly (and increasingly rarely) ...

Literature

The Rest of Us Are Already Here

A lyric essay on fleeing a city in crisis

April 12, 2020 • by Nancy Barnes

The streets are empty No one’s there I stare -- is it true? Just yesterday, people streamed everywhere, high pitched humming currents of worry, rushing chunks of ice colliding The streets are empty No one’s there I stare -- is it true? Overnight Broadway goes dark, no money back ...

New York City

For the Love of Strangers

Meditations from the epicenter

April 9, 2020 • by Julia Foulkes

My own favorite anecdote is in the same mode. A friend was wearing beloved red, clown-like shoes on the subway one day and she soon realized that someone sitting across from her was eyeing them. The person then looked up at her and said: “I could be friends with you.” Strangers ...

Migration

Essential Services

The Unique, Unadressed Plight of Undocumented Immigrants in the COVID Crisis

April 7, 2020 • by José Ángel Navejas

What makes the current crisis familiar is the sense of foreboding, of knowing oneself disposable at any moment. What makes it contradictory is the impossibility of staying put. For most of us, staying home is as unnatural as it is illogical. A violation of our faith in universal principles. If ...

Climate & Ecology

Enduring the Chernobyl Disaster

An interview with Kate Brown

April 7, 2020 • by Damian Roos and Kate Brown

Damien Roos [DR]: This is your second book centered on the topic of nuclear energy. Did you set out with a suspicion that the impact of the Chernobyl disaster had been underreported? Kate Brown [KB]: I did, yes. In some ways, this book is a sequel to this first book I ...

Climate & Ecology

A Promiscuous Formalist

An Interview With Brian Teare

March 29, 2020 • by Brian Teare and Richard Sharpe

Richard Sharp [RS]: In “Clear Water Renga” you place each stanza on the page to create what looks like a river flowing downstream. How do you decide on forming your work and how does it impact the message specific to that poem overall? Brian Teare [BT]: I’m a promiscuous formalist. Promiscuous ...