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New York City

Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ Mental Health

December 23, 2019 • by Abigail Kramer

When he’s well, Hauptman says, Cody’s a sweet 12-year-old. He likes to take care of rescue animals, and he fantasizes about winning the lottery and opening a center for young children with mental health problems. But when he’s sick, he suffers from episodes of psychosis, which often turn violent. His ...

Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ Mental Health

Migration

Calais, After the Jungle

December 19, 2019 • by Liam Healy

In 2016, the Jungle camp was home to an estimated 10,000 people and was largely self-built by both displaced people and volunteers working on the site, with little state or NGO intervention. Before the camp was cleared in November 2016, I had set out to explore the ways image-making practices ...

Migration

From Offshore Detention of Refugees to Indigenous Incarceration

December 18, 2019 • by Anne McNevin

Well before this crisis, conditions in Australia’s offshore camps were described as “torture” by medical professionals, Amnesty International, and refugees themselves. Médecins Sans Frontières reported “catastrophic effects on …mental health” that are “among the worst that MSF has ever seen.” Twelve refugees have died while held offshore. Benham Satah, a Kurdish refugee who witnessed ...

From Offshore Detention of Refugees to Indigenous Incarceration

Migration

Climate Change and Forced Migration

People are displaced every second, and often by environmental calamities

December 18, 2019 • by Jane McAdam

Although most displaced people will not cross an international border, many will -- and their legal status can be precarious. Generally, they will not qualify as refugees under the Refugee Convention, which protects people with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or ...

Migration

Remote Control of Asylum Seekers

How States Evade their Protection Obligation

December 17, 2019 • by David Scott FitzGerald

Zolberg observed that regulating migration at the port of embarkation abroad “is now so familiar that we tend to underestimate its radically innovative character and its fundamental importance in regulating world-wide movement.” In Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, I show how modern remote control has become a ...

Migration

Grassroots Asylum

Escaping the Statist Paradigm

December 17, 2019 • by Simon Behrman

Because the asylum framework is constructed upon such subjective criteria, and is administered by states themselves, the decisions about who receives protection are stuck within a statist paradigm. Asylum is conceived of as a gift of the state, over which the state has discretion in how requests are considered. And ...

Migration

The Epistemology of the Refugee: 30 Years after Zolberg

Introduction to the Zolberg Institute Special Issue

December 16, 2019 • by Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez

Zolberg, Suhrke, and Aguayo’s analysis is centered around the question who is recognized as a refugee -- still a contested issue in today’s public discourse, as people arriving at the southern U.S. border are alternatively categorized as “refugees” or “economic migrants.” Although the majority of migrants at the southern border ...

The Epistemology of the Refugee: 30 Years after Zolberg

Migration

Lockstitch Lives

Migrants in the Megacity

December 16, 2019 • by Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee

Yogesh is one of the people you meet in Lockstitch Lives – Migrants in the Megacity. This interactive documentary, produced by Society for Labour and Development and HELM Studio, transports you to the neighborhoods of Gurgaon, where you witness the rugged daily realities of scores of families like Yogesh’s. Using 360-degree multimedia, Virtual Reality, photography ...

Migration

Journalism and The Greek Refugee Crisis

An Interview with Kate Schoenbach & Dr. Noemi Mena Montes

December 9, 2019 • by Meryl Makielski

Kate Schoenbach and Dr. Noemi Mena Montes have covered a wide array of cultural phenomena throughout the globe. Schoenbach’s most recent piece depicts Moria, a Greek refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. With the increasingly restrictive immigration policies of European Union countries, tens of thousands of refugees have limited ...

Migration

Post-Workers of the World, Unite!

Reconciling Open Borders and Post-Work Politics

December 6, 2019 • by James Chamberlain

Labour party members passed a motion at the 2019 conference asserting that “free movement, equality and rights for migrants are socialist values and benefit us all.” This socialist framing of freedom of movement emphasizes that migrants are workers and marks a clear contrast with Bernie Sanders’s description of open borders as a “right-wing ...

New York City

Initiating Inmates

Closing Rikers Island without oversight will expose thousands of transferred inmates to new violence

December 2, 2019 • by Brittany Friedman

Let the initiation begin. The Team snatched the bewildered young men from the van and placed them in metal cages. “Take your shirt with your right hand and pass it backward over your left shoulder,” the officers commanded. Perplexed, the young men reacted too slowly and quickly received blows to the head. The officers continued ...

Activism

Food for Thought

Five Ways New York Is Ready to Increase Organic Recycling

November 27, 2019 • by Justin Wood

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) held a public hearing on November 20th for a newly proposed organic waste recycling rule. It would increase the number of restaurants, stores, and other businesses required to source-separate organic waste for composting or other environmentally acceptable disposal. Compared to cities like San Francisco and Seattle, which ...