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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
March Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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NYU Migration Network Public Conversation Series
Held monthly over the semester, these public conversations bring together scholars, artists, and practitioners for cross-disciplinary exchanges to develop and refine understandings of migration and mobility, its histories, and its political stakes.
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| Changes to Immigration Policy Under the Trump Administration: Implications and Consequences
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When: March 19, 2025
Time: 5.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Where: Lipton Hall, NYU School of Law (40 Washington Square S)
Who:
Omar Jadwat
Omar Jadwat is director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, which he joined as a Skadden Fellow in 2002. Omar has litigated numerous groundbreaking cases at IRP, including suits challenging the Trump administration’s Muslim ban; Arizona’s SB 1070 and other state and local anti-immigrant laws; and ICE’s use of immigration detainers. He graduated from NYU Law School and was a law clerk for Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU Law.
Alina Das
Alina Das ’05 is a Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law, where she co-teaches and co-directs the Immigrant Rights Clinic. She and her clinic students represent immigrants and community organizations in litigation and advocacy to advance immigrant rights locally and across the country. In addition to her teaching, Das engages in scholarship on deportation and detention issues, particularly at the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Das also serves as faculty director of the NYU Latinx Rights Scholars Program.
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Upcoming Public Conversations
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NYU Migration Network Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration
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The NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the launch of the 5th annual Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration. Five awards of $3000 each, along with five finalist recognitions of $1000 each, will be granted for the summer of 2025 to support outstanding graduate students in their research on migration and mobility. The award funds research or artistic production in an array of academic disciplines, including in the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical and natural sciences, and professional fields (e.g. law, public policy, urban planning, engineering, and business). We welcome research that is innovative in conception and that spans disciplinary boundaries. Research that compares migration dynamics in different geo-political regions is especially encouraged.
The Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration is made possible through generous funding from the Remarque Institute, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the Furman Center, 19 Washington Square North, the Latinx Project, the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Graduate School of Arts & Science, Liberal Studies, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the Urban Democracy Lab, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
The award supports research and artistic production, including expenses associated with materials and data sources required to complete the project. The award also offers an optional collaboration with the Tisch School of the Arts to make a short film about the research. The 2025 grants will fund research in compliance with NYU travel regulations, which are subject to change. Students enrolled in any NYU graduate program, at any of NYU’s campuses, and having completed at least one semester of coursework, are eligible to apply. Finalists from previous years are also eligible to apply.
Applications are due on April 4, 2025
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Migration and Im/mobility: Rising to the Challenge
Undergraduate Student Research Conference
Join NYU undergraduate students from across NYU as they present research projects related to the theme “Migration and Im/Mobility: Rising to the Challenge,” featuring topics such as migration, mobility or immobility, borders, displacement, and asylum globally and locally.
Selected students will present their research and engage in discussion with each other on a panel moderated by a faculty member. Food and beverages will be served.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Time: 5 pm - 8 pm
Where: Hemmerdinger Hall & Zoom, NYU Silver Center, 31 Washington Place
Who: NYU Liberal Studies, NYU Migration Network, NYU Center for Undergraduate Research
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Upcoming Events
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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Displacement Beyond Borders: Legal Protections for Climate Refugees & Migrants on a Burning Planet
Co-Hosted by the International Refugee Assistance Project at NYU Law, Environmental Law Society, and Law Students for Human Rights
What is the state of climate refugee-hood and migration in 2025? This panel will bring together expert speakers and practitioners to provide an outlook on how international law has evolved to protect climate refugees and where it still fails to do so – as well as what promising approaches there are for bolstering these protections. It will also consider the greatest challenges to establishing comprehensive protections for climate refugees and migrants in a world where climate change impacts are rapidly accelerating, countries are failing to meet their climate goals, and there is a surge in right-wing nativist and xenophobic politics across the Global North. It will also practically address how law students can get involved through their studies and careers in advancing protections for people displaced by climate change, by taking action from the local to the national and international levels.
Date: March 5, 2025
Time: 7 pm - 8.15 pm
Where: Vanderbilt Hall, Smart Classroom 204, 40 Washington Square South
Who: NYU Law
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Making and Unmaking of the Ottoman Borders
This roundtable brings together scholars to discuss the making and unmaking of Ottoman borders in the last century of the empire. The participants will reflect on the definition of what constitutes borderlands in relation to their academic works, and what are the processes in which various experiences of territoriality can be conceptualized within the Ottoman context. Matthew Ellis will discuss the formation of southern borderlands along the Egyptian-Libyan borders in the long 19th century. David Gutman will reflect on the Armenian mobility to North America and the Ottoman efforts to control and prevent it along the eastern borderlands. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe will discuss how the island of Crete in the context of a conflict between Greece and the Ottoman Empire fits into this framework of borderlands in the late 19th century. Pınar Odabaşı Taşcı will look at Edirne, previously an imperial city in the Ottoman Balkans, that became a borderland in the early 20th century at the end of the Empire.
Date: March 6, 2025
Time: 5.30 pm
Where: Kevorkian Center Library
Who: Ottoman & Turkish Studies at NYU and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
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Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: Locating the good lifeThis talk is based on Elena Borisova’s recent book researching what migration is and what it does in rural Tajikistan – one of the most remittance dependent countries in the world. Exploring this dependency, Borisova moves beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration and foreground the experiences of those who ‘stay put’ and struggle to reproduce their moral communities.
Date: March 12, 2025
Time: 2 pm - 4.30 pm
Where: New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
19 University Place, 2nd Floor
Who: Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
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Career Building as Immigrant Artists
Join NYU Abu Dhabi alumni Fatima A. Maan (Pakistan) and Orsolya Szánthó (Hungary) as they discuss their artistic journeys, from their time at NYUAD, to building and sustaining cross-continental creative practices as well as share insights on navigating immigration processes and the challenges of establishing careers across borders. The session features a moderated discussion, offering attendees the chance to gain valuable perspectives on the intersection of art and mobility.
Date: March 13, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 7.30 pm
Where: 19 Washington Square North
Who: NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York
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| The Migration Network wants to highlight it all!
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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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