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A truly interdisciplinary endeavor, the institute
builds on the intellectual tradition of migration
unites the university’s schools and programs
studies at The New School and provides a space
to address migration and mobility. Critical
for research, policy debate, and discussion
perspectives prepare students and faculty
among activists and artists on global migration
to question political terms such as borders,
and mobility and their economic, political, and
sovereignty, citizenship, and nation-states
psychological consequences and relationship to
and examine global mental health. Faculty and
citizenship and identity.
students from Parsons School of Design bring
The Zolberg Institute is the world’s first
a focus on design, technology, and material
migration center to focus on mobility. The
culture, which helps the institute reassess the
institute—named for the late Aristide Zolberg,
reasons why people move and the traces they
NSSR professor of politics and pioneer in
leave behind. The Milano School of Policy,
immigration politics, studies of ethnicity,
Management, and Environment and the School
and practices of integration—constitutes
of Media Studies employ their own scholarly
a reinvigoration of Zolberg’s International
approaches in innovative forms of public
Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship,
outreach, including engagements with media
founded in the 1990s. Directed by former
(e.g., Feet in 2 Worlds) and public education
UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
(e.g., Humanities Action Lab). This enables the
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, the institute brings
institute to make sense of current events and
together global scholars with unique talents
tackle new problems more effectively.
and skills to innovatively rethink human mobility and advance debates about
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migration and claims for social justice.
migration@newschool.edu
Fig. 7 The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship (ICMEC), founded by Aristide Zolberg, hosted an event on March 29, 1994, at which former Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmerman participated in a lecture titled “The State Department’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy Making.”
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