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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
October Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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| The Immigration and US Election Series
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Join us for 15-minute zoom breakdowns of the immigration policies proposed by the Trump and Harris campaigns and an explanation of how they fit in with existing policies and practices.
Explainers will take place from 10:30am - 10:45am.
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In each digest, we will list upcoming events for the month related to the topic of migration that may be of interest to you. Events upcoming this month are below.
If you have an event happening next month, please let us know using the information at the end of this newsletter.
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Khalik Allah Masterclass
Join us for a Photography and Filmmaking Masterclass led by Khalik Allah.
Khalik Allah is a Jamaican-American New York-based photographer and filmmaker. He started filming on the street at the age of 14 with a Hi-8 camcorder and has since worked in both photography and video. He has become renowned for portraying people in urban and marginalized contexts. His filmography includes Popa Wu: A 5% Story (2010), Field Niggas (2015), Black Mother (2018), and IWOW: I Walk on Water (2020). In 2017, Allah published Souls Against the Concrete, a book of photographs taken in Harlem between 2012 and 2016.
This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive email instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.
Date: October 3, 2024
Time: 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: King Juan Carlos Center, 50 Washington Square S
Who: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Film Screening: Khalik Allah's Black Mother
The screening will be followed by a Q and A with the film's director, cinematographer, editor and co-producer Khalik Allah, and filmmakers and NYU Undergraduate Film and TV professors Shevaun Mizrahi and Alfonso Morgan-Terrero.
Khalik Allah is a New York–based photographer and filmmaker who describes his work as "Camera Ministry." His film credits include Field Niggas (2015) and Black Mother (2018), which had its New York premiere at MoMA and the Lincoln Center. Allah’s first book of photography, Souls Against the Concrete, was published by University of Texas Press in 2017.
NYU’s Undergraduate Film and Television department, NYU’s Migration Network, NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP) are co-sponsoring this event.
This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU guests must present their NYU ID.
Date: October 4, 2024
Time: 6pm - 9 pm
Where: Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Who: NYU Tisch
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Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program
How do immigration policies from economically advantaged countries affect people in less advantaged countries and the immigrants who come in with these policies? Structured Luck takes us on a transnational journey to explore the societal, personal, and political implications of the US Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, a US immigration policy that is an annual economic and cultural event in many economically disadvantaged countries. It illuminates the trauma, resilience, determination, and mobility of immigrants who come to the U.S. through the DV program and closes with a call for the U.S. and other economically advantaged countries to develop policies that will better integrate their immigrants into society.
Speaker: Onoso Imoagene, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD; Author, "Structured Luck Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program" (Russell Sage, 2024)
In conversation with: Natasha Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU Wagner
Date: October 9, 2024
Time: 4:30‐6pm
Where: 19 Washington Square North
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York
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Karina Horsti on Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster
This event is co-hosted by NYU Liberal Studies, the NYU Migration Network, and the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Join Karina Horsti for a talk drawing on her recent publication, Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster, moderated by Professor Radha Hegde (NYU Steinhardt).
The focus on survival adds an important temporal aspect to the issue of migrant deaths at borders. This awareness of temporality - that the present will one day be past - allows us to imagine possible futures, prompting a vision of a convivial future society. Ethnographic research with survivors of the most mediatized migrant shipwrecks in Italy shows how for the survivors of border violence survival is a process in which they create a new identity and belonging in Europe. The specters haunting the present are not only from the past but also from the future.
Light food will be provided.
Date: October 17, 2024
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Where: 239 Greene Street, Room: 8th Floor
Who: NYU Liberal Studies
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Border Crossings / Cruzando Fronteras: Trans Life Across the US-Mexico Border
Save the date for a panel organized by NYU professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo as part of Beyond a Boundary: the Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective at NYU. Building on Black feminist theorizations of intersectionality, the Collective functions as a forum for feminist/queer scholars, activists, and cultural workers throughout New York City and the Tri-State region.
The panel will consist of a conversation with Children’s Rights Legal Advocate Tania Morales; Author and Activist Alejandra R. DeRuiz; Performance Artists and Activists Lía García, and Angel Lartigue, moderated by Prof. Laura Gutierrez. Performance to follow.
Date: October 25, 2024
Time: 5pm ‐ 7pm
Where: 20 Cooper Square, Room 101
Who: Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
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Please share any events, highlights, or other information for the Migration Network by emailing migration-network@nyu.edu.
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Thanks to all of you for your continued engagement with the network. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email migration-network@nyu.edu.
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