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Welcome to the NYU Migration Network
May Digest
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Here are some updates and upcoming migration and mobility events for this month.
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2024 Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration
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The NYU Migration Network is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Graduate Student Award for Summer Research on Migration. The five projects awarded and the five finalists recognized are featured here. Congratulations to all!
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Aisha Arain
MA student in Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies
From Mosque to Political Battleground: The Identity Politics of the British Pakistani Diaspora
Utilizing historical archives and ethnographic fieldwork, this project delves into the conflicting dynamics of the British Pakistani diaspora and how its identity politics have transformed Ahmadi mosques from regular places of worship to sites of tension by extending Pakistan's national Islamization project to the diasporic landscape.
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Itzel Delgado-Gonzalez
PhD Candidate in the American Studies Program
Returning in the Afterlife: Repatriating the Dead to Mexico
This interdisciplinary dissertation investigates the significance of the repatriation of human remains to ancestral lands for Indigenous Mexicans in New York City, and how this migratory journey is mediated by the US-Mexico data border.
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Laura Carty
MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Transformation of UFC Afro Caribbean workers into Afro-Ticos: Migration and Identity construction in Limón, Province prior to 1948
Study of West Indian migrant workers in Costa Rica before the 1948 civil war and the role of their American employer, The United Fruit Company, in influencing identity construction among the heterogeneous community while also analyzing how these workers engaged with the state amid forced isolation and denial of citizenship.
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Natasha Bernstein Bunzl
PhD candidate in Food Studies
"In a few years, our food will be better”: Venezuelan migrants and NYC’s food system
This project asks what alimentary practices low-income Venezuelan migrants employ to nourish themselves and their families. Understanding that migration through countries with vastly different food systems involves learning new methods for food shopping, preparing, and disposing, this project illustrates the challenges and strategies that people living in poverty employ to nourish their lives in NYC.
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Jackie Abhulimen
PhD candidate in Performance Studies
Mobility, logos and logics in the Black Mediterranean
This preliminary research project begins to collate the makings of an Afro-Greek subject in support of a larger study on how citizenry is negotiated within the politics of logos, logics and mobility in the Black Mediterranean.
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Anel Rakhimzhanova
PhD candidate in Performance Studies
Moving in the Ferghana Valley: Mobility, Logistics, and Water in the (Post)Soviet Anthropocene
Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, this project explores the narratives and politics of humans and water mobility at the heart of the transformation of nature and identity in Ferghana – the valley shaped by extensive Soviet-era irrigation and cotton-intensive agriculture, as well as national building across Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
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Bharath Gururagavendran
MA in International Relations
Forgotten Voices: Uncovering the Histories of South Asian Migrant Labourers on the Siam-Burma Railway During WWII.
Investigating the historical disparity in remembrance, this project examines the mobilization of Tamil (forced) migrant labourers during WWII, particularly focusing on the Siam-Burma Railway, and aims to establish a digital repository that leverages scattered key legal, administrative, and other secondary source-records to preserve their stories.
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Jacelyn Osarugue Omusi
PhD candidate in Sociology
Contemporary Sankofa?: Investigating Conceptions of Race and Citizenship Among African American Expatriates in 21st-Century Ghana
Contemporary Sankofa? uses in-depth interviews with Black American expatriates in Ghana to investigate how the "imagined” versus “actual” Ghana shapes their understanding of race and belonging; delving into "affective migration," this research offers a fresh perspective on Black expatriation, racial identity, and contemporary migration patterns and motivations.
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Jackielyn D. Ruiz
PhD candidate in Teaching and Learning
Filipino Immigrant Parents in New York City: History and Disability
This research aims to gain a better understanding of how Filipino immigration has changed in New York City and how Filipino immigrant parents of children with disabilities have engaged in parent participation and advocacy from the passing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 up to the present.
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Taylor Dews
PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology
Are we kin?: African and Diasporic Ecounter at the Black Star International Film Festival
The Black Star International Film Festival (BSIFF), a women-led, Africa-based event held in Accra, Ghana, draws global participants from "Africa and its Diasporas." This study examines how BSIFF's strategies shape participants' transnational belonging, emerging international relationships, and how Ghana's geopolitics as a Pan-African "homeplace" influences the festival's mission and programming.
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Talk: Border Games, Moroccan-Spanish Confrontations on Mobility & Migration during Covid-19
We are thrilled to announce that Zaynab El Bernoussi (NYUAD) will be presenting her paper, entitled "Border Games: Moroccan-Spanish Confrontations on Mobility & Migration during Covid-19”.
This paper argues that Spain and Morocco increasingly engage in tit-for-tat strategies, particularly during the recent health crisis and the exacerbation of global inequalities in terms of access to vaccines, medicine and food supplies because of chronic shortages, particularly in the global South. The goal is to understand the emotional ripples of policies on mobility on migrants.
Zaynab El Bernoussi, or Z, is visiting assistant professor of social research and public policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research interests focus on the politicization of dignity demands in the political development of the global South, and South-South cooperation. Her book, Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
Date: May 10, 2024
Time: 12 pm
Where: 411 Lafayette Street, 5th Floor
Who: Migration Network
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April Public Conversation Series Managing Crisis: Public Communication on Global Displacement
This event has been postponed to the Fall of 2024.
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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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Book Launch: The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image
It only took a century or so to segue from phrases like “No Irish Need Apply” to “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” in American popular culture. Indeed, the transformation of the Irish image is a fascinating blend of political, cultural, racial, commercial, and social influences.
The Green Space, the latest from the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series by NYU Press, examines the variety of factors that contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. To understand the forces that molded how people understand “Irish” is to see the matrix—the green space—that facilitated their interaction between the 1890s and 1960s. Marion R. Casey argues that, as “Irish” evolved between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity was opened up in the process. The evolution was also transnational; both Ireland and the United States were inextricably linked to how various iterations of “Irish” were deployed over time—whether as a straightforward noun about a specific people with a national identity or a loose, endlessly malleable adjective only tangentially connected to actual ethnic identity.
Featuring a rich assortment of sources and images, The Green Space takes the history of the Irish image in America as a prime example of the ways in which culture and identity can be manufactured, repackaged, and ultimately revolutionized.
Understanding the multifaceted influences that shaped perceptions of “Irishness” holds profound relevance for examining similar dynamics within studies of various immigrant and ethnic communities in the US.
Marion R. Casey is Clinical Professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of History at New York University. She is co-editor of Making the Irish American History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (2006).
Date: May 9, 2024
Time: 7:00-8:15pm
Where: Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Who: Glucksman Ireland House
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