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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Spring 2026 Public Conversation SeriesHeld 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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| The Health Impacts of Immigration Policy
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When: Wednesday, March 25 — 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Where: NYU Wagner School of Public Service — Main Event Space; 105 East 17th street, New York, NY 10003
Who:Maria Elena de Trinidad Young, PhD, MPH, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor at UC Merced. Young focuses on the impact of the U.S. immigration system on the health of immigrant populations. Her research examines the relationship between health inequities and factors such as citizenship and legal status and state and local policies. Her current research seeks to understand the various structural, institutional, and individual mechanisms that link policy with health outcomes.
Young was formerly the project director of the NIH-funded Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy (RIGHTS) Study which seeks to understand the experiences of Latino and Asian immigrants in California in the areas of health care, social services, employment, education, and law enforcement and how these experiences have had an impact on their health and access to health care. Young was also the Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at UC Merced where she lead a study to examine how media coverage of immigration policy may influence immigrant well-being.
Laura Wherry is an Associate Professor at NYU Wagner and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Economics of Health program. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she served as the Senior Economist for health care on the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Her research focuses on the role of public programs and policies on the health and economic well-being of individuals in the US. She has a particular interest in policies that affect access to health care for women and children in lower-income families.
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Spring 2026 Speaker Series
During the Spring semester, the NYU Migration Network offers NYU faculty an opportunity to workshop their research with other university faculty and students as a part of the speaker series. These casual gatherings are an opportunity for scholars to share their migration and mobility projects and for their colleagues to learn about their work.
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When: March 25 — 9:30am - 10:30am EST
Where: Online (Zoom)
Who:
Olal Galal, Global Cultures, NYU Liberal Studies, and, Laure Assaf, Anthropology and Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi
Ola Galal will outline her ethnographic research and Digital Humanities project "Il/legal”: Migrant Lives and Border Technologies in “Fortress North Africa" that examines the social and affective life of the law as it is experienced by asylum seekers and migrants who shape and are shaped by transnational border technologies across the shores of the Mediterranean.
Laure Assaf will discuss her book project, based on an ethnography of the Arab youths of Abu Dhabi. The book explores the importance of place in shaping contemporary subjects by proposing citadinité – urban membership – as a critical alternative to citizenship.
Note: This event will be held via zoom.
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2026 Graduate Student Award
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The Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration is made possible through generous funding from the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, Africa House, the Latinx Project, 19 Washington Square North, the Furman Center, Liberal Studies, Steinhardt, the Urban Democracy Lab, and the Remarque Center.
The award supports research and artistic production, including expenses associated with materials and data sources required to complete the project. The 2024 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 March 30, 2026.
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| NYU Migration Network SpotlightThe NYU Migration Network is spotlighting new publications on migration by NYU faculty. We will feature a new interview every month with an NYU author about their recent book.
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| This month, we are excited to feature Professor Rodney Benson’s book:
How Media Ownership Matters
(Oxford University Press, 2025).
This interview was conducted by second-year doctoral student in the International Education program at NYU Steinhardt, Sofía Antonia Gómez-Doyle.
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Please reach out to migration-network@nyu.edu if you are interested in conducting an interview as a part of this series!
You can also access our Spotlight interview archives here.
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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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Grounds of Displacement: The 2026 A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Symposium
The current administration of the United States has bombastically escalated two constitutive strategies of imperial expansion: "extraction and displacement.” Fortifying the boundaries of the nation and scouring the depths of the earth may produce new commodities and technological breakthroughs, but these processes remain rooted in enduring logics of racial capitalism and settler colonialism.
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026 - Friday, March 6, 2026
Time: 12:30-7:15pm EST & 10:00am - 4:30pm EST
Where: 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003
Who: A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group
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A Conversation on Immigration in the U.S.OGS is hosting Part 2 of a Conversation Series on Identity and Inclusion for International Students, "A Conversation on Immigration in the U.S." In this discussion-based session, we will explore the United States' history with immigration from past to present, placing it in dialogue with your own lived experiences as international students in the U.S.
Date: Friday, March 6, 2026
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
Where: NYU StudentLink Center, 383 Lafayette St. Room C06, New York, New York
Who: Office of Global Services
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Steinhardt Workshop on Education and Immigration Research: Dr. Ariana Mangual Figueroa
The aim of this workshop is to create an intellectual space where graduate students and faculty across Steinhardt and New York City who study immigration and education can come together, share work, and think collectively about how our scholarship can center and serve immigrant communities in this urgent political moment.
Date: Friday, March 6, 2026
Time: 12:00pm EST - 1:30pm EST
Where: 20 Cooper Square, Rm 222. New York, NY 10003
Who: Steinhardt Workshop on Education and Immigration Research (SWEIR)
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LaLSA Immigration Rights Series: Crimmigration
Join LaLSA to resume an Immigration Rights Event Series this semester. This event is the third of the year and will be a panel with attorneys who practice at the intersection of immigration and the criminal legal system.
This event will either be presented in hybrid or entirely virtual format. Stay tuned for the RSVP form, which will reflect the final details.
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 6:00–7:30 p.m. EST
Where: Vanderbilt Hall, Smart Classroom 206 40 Washington Square South New York, NY, 10012
Who: NYU Law.
Learn More and Register Here
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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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