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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
February 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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Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement
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When: February 27, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Main Event Space, NYU Wagner (105 E 17th St)
Who:
Melissa Fleming was appointed UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications in September 2019.
She leads the UN’s Department of Global Communications, which informs global audiences about the state of the world and engages them to build support for the work and goals of the United Nations.
In this role, Ms. Fleming oversees the Department’s strategic and crisis communications operations, including its multilingual news and digital media services, public outreach programmes, and global campaigns.
Under her leadership, the UN Department of Global Communications engages in far-reaching efforts to address mis- and disinformation, and hate speech and also to promote free and independent media. She led the development of the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity, a blueprint for healthy information ecosystems.
Mohamad Bazzi is Director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he was associate director of NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), providing regional expertise and analysis. He was also the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at CFR.
Before joining the NYU faculty, Bazzi was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday from 2003 to 2008, where he established bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut. He was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath. He also covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. He previously served as Newsday’s United Nations bureau chief and as a metro reporter in New York City. His essays and commentaries on the Middle East have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Politico Magazine, Reuters, and other publications.
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Upcoming Public Conversations
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NYU Migration Network Spotlight
The 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.
This month, we are excited to feature Prof. Cristina Vatulescu's new book Reading the Archival Revolution Declassified Stories and Their Challenges (Stanford University Press, 2024), interviewed by Gina Caputo is a second-year Master's student in NYU's XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement program.
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You can access our Spotlight interview archives here.
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Migration and Im/mobility: Rising to the Challenge
Undergraduate Student Research Conference
This is an outstanding opportunity for undergraduate students from NYU to share their research on such topics as migration, mobility or immobility, borders, displacement, and asylum globally and locally.
Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit their ongoing research from a capstone research project or their findings from a paper or project completed in a previous semester.
Selected students will present their research and engage in discussion with each other on a panel moderated by a faculty member. These will be short presentations (no more than 8 minutes each) to allow ample time for moderated discussions.
Participation is open to all NYU undergraduate students from any school or major. To apply, please fill out the form by clicking the button below.
Important: All student presenters must be available to present either in-person (for students in NYC) or by Zoom (students at global sites, NYUAD or NYUSH) at the event on March 4. Guests will be invited to attend in-person or virtually.
Proposals are due Monday, February 3, 2025.
Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Time: 5 pm - 8 pm
Where: TBD
Who: NYU Liberal Studies, NYU Migration Network, NYU Center for Undergraduate Research
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Know Your Rights: An Immigrant Rights Teach-in for the NYU CommunityPlease join us in this Know Your Rights workshop for the NYU community. It is more important than ever to be aware of your rights regardless of immigration status. Our panel of organizers and specialists will lead us in a practical and action-oriented conversation on strategies to resist current attacks on the civil liberties of immigrant communities, discussing how to best advocate for oneself and how to show up in support of those who are most vulnerable. This event initiates a series of campus engagements focused on providing resources and information to push back against the criminalization of immigrants and new arrivals, exploitative employment practices, housing insecurity, and police brutality. Whether you are an undocumented student, an international student or staff member, a member of a mixed status family, or a supporter, our goal is to bring people together so that we can learn how to protect ourselves and each other. Lunch will be provided.
Date: January 31, 2025Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm
Where: 20 Cooper Sq
Who: NYU CRACS Sanctuary Working Group
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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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Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum
All Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows attend the Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum, which features presentations of research to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty, and students. This provides an opportunity for Global Fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment.
Date: January 28, 2025
Time: 11 am - 1 pm
Where: 22 Washington Square North New York
Who: NYU Law
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Wigs and Spaces of Intimacy: Korean Migration and the American Street
Following the Korean War, the military government of South Korea supported industries to improve the dire post-war economic situation. Central to this strategy was to identify export goods that optimized local resources and knowledge, and that targeted international markets. Among those exports were wigs, and by the 1960s, Seoul became the global center for wig manufacturing, relying on its own female population for hair supplies and cheap labor. These wigs were exported to the US and specifically targeted the growing consumer market of African American women. Moreover, wig stores were run by new Korean immigrants in urban neighborhoods that were in the process of becoming increasingly Black with white flight to the suburbs and red-lining practices. Parallel to the shifting racial and ethnic geographies in American cities, South Korea also faced socio-political change in which the women toiling in wig factories started to protest their working conditions. Their political actions would eventually mark the beginning of the Korean democracy movement. This lecture by Professor Min Kyung Lee connects the migration stories of Koreans to those of African Americans, focusing on their shared spatial practices in wig stores during the Cold War period in the US.
Date: January 30, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Where: Institute of Fine Arts (The James B. Duke House 1 East 78th Street)
Who: A/P/A Institute at NYU
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Launch Of "The Routledge History Of Irish America," Edited By Cian Mcmahon And Kate Costello-Sullivan
Editors Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan will be in conversation with Kevin Kenny.
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora.
Date: February 6, 2025
Time: 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: 1 Washington Mews
Who: NYU Glucksman Ireland House
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#Darien Documentary Screening
Countless migrants make the treacherous journey from South and Central America to reach the U.S. – and many document it on social media. While Venezuelan filmmaker Tatiana Rojas Ponce struggles to find meaningful ways to help those arriving in New York from her home country, she meets Paola and Emily, who share stories, videos, and reflections about their harrowing passage through the Darien jungle en route to the United States.
Join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center for a free screening of the documentary film, #Darien. Following the 36-minute screening, there will be a Q&A with Tatiana Rojas Ponce, the filmmaker and PhD candidate at NYU. Erick Moreno Superlano from the Centre on Migration, Politics and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford will moderate.
Date: February 20, 2025
Time: 4 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Vanderbilt Hall, Smart Classroom 214, 40 Washington Square South
Who: NYU Law
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The Historical Contours of Migration and Forced Removal [Webinar]
Join this online panel with scholars Laura Gutierrez (Pacific), Ana Minian (Stanford), Ariana Valle (UC Davis), and Irvin Ibarguen (NYU) for timely context on histories of migration and detention.
Date: February 25, 2025
Time: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Who: The Latinx Project 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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