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Articles by Lara J. Nettelfield
Immigration and the US Presidential Election
Border Fence, Playas de Tijuana, Mexico (1998) | Camilo J. Vergara / Library of Congress Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have emphasized US-Mexico border security as one of the top concerns of their 2024 presidential campaigns. Why? In a conversation hosted by the New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, politics and global studies professor Alexandra Délano Alonso sat down with NSSR dean and Zolberg director T.
Social Researchon Exile
Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2024 | Social Research / Johns Hopkins University Press In the latest issue of Social Research (Vol. 92, No. 1), scholars explore the nature of exile. Some essays reflect on exile forced by war and political persecution, others on the difference between being an exile and being a refugee. TABLE OF CONTENTS Avishai Margalit, “Internal Exile and Politics“ This essay has two parts. One scans notions of inner exile as withdrawal from society; the other examines politics.
Notes on red liberty
red liberty (Fall 2021), acrylic and pastel on bar mop| Marco Saavedra Known originally by the Lenape people as Paggank, or “nut island,” Governors Island is where the Hudson and East Rivers meet in New York Harbor and empty into the Atlantic. Where you can step into the sunset as New York City’s skyline opens to river, bay, ocean, and clouds above. In the fall of 2021, I was granted a residency at the island. I had avoided painting water my whole life and now found myself surrounded by it.
New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration
German stowaway at Ellis Island (1911) | Augustus F. Sherman / New York Public Library Digital Collections We are witnessing a historical moment where migration and displacement across the world are on the rise. And if New York is the world’s capital, it should come as no surprise that this moment has also arrived here, in the city of immigrants. Unlike other cities with immigrants, it is impossible to dissociate migration from New York.
Testing the Waters in Gotham
Etching of the Croton aqueduct, New York | Samuel Hollyers / CC BY 4.0 DEED Some bakers claim that if there’s one thing more New York than a bagel, it’s the water used to make that bagel. In fact, NYC water has little calcium and is slightly alkaline, two processes that do not “strengthen the gluten in the dough” and slow down “the activity of the yeast.” Yet even the Department of Environmental Protection has embraced the myth, boasting in 2018 subway posters, “Yeah, it’s the water.
We Need Racial and Legal Equality in the US Asylum System Too
Memorial coffins at the Tijuana-San Diego border for those who died crossing. Tomas Castelazo, tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 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.
From Alberta to the Aegean: Peace River volunteers on front lines of Europe's refugee crisis
Skala Skamineas, Lesvos, Greece — The image of six refugees plucked off the rocky shores of the Greek island of Lesvos sticks with search-and-rescue volunteer Robin Differenz.The group had just crossed the Aegean Sea in an inflatable boat, departing from Turkey in the dead of a July night, hoping to reach Europe.“There was a pregnant young woman among them,” said Differenz, a Peace River resident and volunteer firefighter for the County of Northern Lights in northwestern Alberta.
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