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The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility builds on the intellectual tradition of migration studies at The New School. It provides a space for research and scholarship, policy debate, and discussion with activists and artists around global migration and mobility issues and their economic impact, political consequences, and meaning for issues of citizenship and identity.
Named for the late Aristide Zolberg, professor of politics at The New School for Social Research and pioneer in the fields of immigration politics, studies of ethnicity, and practices of integration, the institute constitutes a reinvigoration of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship, founded by Zolberg in the 1990s. Directed by University Professor Alex Aleinikoff, the Zolberg Institute aims to produce high-quality research; bring together scholars from many disciplines; engage with contentious political and cultural questions of mobility and immobility, justice and inequality, and belonging and exclusion; and open a space for scholarly, activist, and artistic voices on the political, economic, and cultural consequences of migration. Most important, the institute provides a space in which to think about how migrants and migration are changing the political landscape—how they open up new political possibilities, wittingly or unwittingly. Using migration as a lens, the institute studies various types of transformation, shifting from a focus on nation-states and their borders to new forms of global knowledge and action activated by and for migrants.
To learn more, visit zolberginstitute.org.