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Futures

Exiles on 12th Street, Episode Five

September 23, 2019 • by Claire Potter

The future can sometimes seem daunting and frightening, but it can also feel like an unwritten adventure. As children, we played in a world of infinite possibilities, in which imagination—not predestination—ruled the day. In the fifth episode of Exiles on 12th Street, we explore possibilities the future may hold. From ...

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Crime Stories

Exiles on 12th Street, Episode Four

August 8, 2019 • by Claire Potter

A skyrocketing homicide rate, a powerful American Mafia, and a burgeoning drug culture plagued 20th century New York. The high incidence of crime led to sensationalist news coverage and caused less privileged victims’ voices to go unheard. Our fourth episode focuses on crime, telling the stories of Kitty Genovese and ...

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Kicking and Screaming: Stonewall at 50

Exiles on 12th Street: Episode Three

June 28, 2019 • by Claire Potter

This is the third episode in Public Seminar’s podcast, Exiles on 12th Street. If you like it, go to iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe. The Stonewall riots that took place in New York in June 1969 are widely credited with catalyzing the modern LGBT+ civil rights movement. Join us as ...

Migration

Corpus Nullius: How Europe Recast the Migrant Body

Narratives of the migrant-refugee crisis reflect the interests they serve

May 23, 2019 • by Siraj Izhar

After a record number of refugees arrived in Europe in 2015 following the Syrian collapse, Europe’s reaction provided the conditions for an even more fundamental change. As the fences went up at each boundary within a previously borderless Schengen Europe -- almost as an act of self-reproach following Angela Merkel’s acceptance ...

Corpus Nullius: How Europe Recast the Migrant Body

Exiles on 12th Street

The Fire This Time

Exiles on 12th Street, Episode Two

April 3, 2019 • by Claire Potter

Violence against African American people creates pain and outrage, but policy makers offer us few solutions. In this episode, we ask: how can the fight for racial justice be accelerated, even as racism remains as persistent today as it was before the modern Civil Rights movement? In the spirit of ...

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Border Crisis?

How American Policies Have Produced a Generation of Refugees

March 26, 2019 • by Michelle Mayhew-Shears and Heather M. Salazar

On October 18, 2018 President Donald J. Trump continued his detrimental practice of using Twitter to fuel the already hot immigration debate. He said, in part, “I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, ...

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‘First thing we do, we kill all the lawyers.’

How Trump’s immigration policies have been (largely) stopped in the courts. A conversation with law professor Peter Margulies.

January 23, 2019 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Lawyers -- outraged by the Trump Administration's harsh policies against immigrants -- have brought scores of cases challenging the President's actions. They have been remarkably successful in persuading judges to invalidate or put on hold many of the Administration's new policies. Law professor Peter Margulies tells us why the lawyers ...

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Border Tragedies

A Tempest Tossed Essay by Alex Aleinikoff on Trump border policies.

January 20, 2019 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

The death of 7 year old Jakelin Caal while in Border Patrol custody is a tragedy, and it is sadly emblematic of Trump Administration border policies that have devastated families, undermined U.S. asylum laws and betrayed traditional American values. Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility ...

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Tempest Tossed Episode 10

The Trump Administration’s Assault on Gender Asylum

January 16, 2019 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Two actions of the Trump Administration have sought to make it practically impossible for women who are victims of intimate partner violence to apply for and be granted asylum in the United States. The first is an action by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to overturn a decision of the Board of ...

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Tempest Tossed Episode 9

Tempest Tossed Pre-Election Edition: All Trump all the time— a conversation with Roberto Suro, professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California

November 16, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

President Trump has dominated the pre-election news by returning to a theme that probably brought him the Presidency -- immigration. Roberto Suro discusses the politics of the Trump strategy, the failure of an effective response from the Democrats, and how older narratives of immigration may not work for the current ...

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Tempest Tossed Episode 8

Inciting Fear: Trump and the ‘Caravan’–a conversation with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute

November 15, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

According to Donald Trump, a group of several thousand Hondurans fleeing violence and poverty who are on foot and 1000 miles from the US border are a threat to US national security and sovereignty. Who is part of the "caravan"? Why have they left Honduras? What are their prospects for ...

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Tempest Tossed

Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

October 24, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Under an agreement signed in 2002, Canada can return asylum-seekers to the US if they have traveled through the US or lived there prior to arriving in Canada. Recent policies north and south of the US-Canadian border pose new challenges to the agreement, as Sean Rehaag, professor at Osgoode Hall ...