The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Archives

Migration

“I will tell you the story of belatedness”

Why for us, migrants, it is always too late

January 14, 2021 • by Valeria Castelli, Giulia Sbaffi and Dagmawi Yimer

“I will tell you the story of belatedness. We migrants, we refugees, we foreigners.We are always seen as delayed people.We arrive [at] the right time.And it is always too late.”Shahram Khosravi It is mid-June when we video chat with Dagmawi Yimer, an Ethiopian refugee and filmmaker living in Italy, for the first ...

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 ...

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 ...