Learn more about the migrations research happening across campus at this research forum, hosted by the Migrations initiative. In three-minute, lightning round presentations, migration researchers and practitioners will share the progress of their interdisciplinary projects that have been funded by Migrations.

Projects

1. Risk or Refuge: Inequality in Exposure to Environmental Vulnerability in California
Kendra Bischoff, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Linda Shi, Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, Architecture Art and Planning

2. Linking Impacts of Narco-trafficking in Central America to Overwintering Migratory Birds
Amanda Rodewald, Garvin Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

3. Caribbean Studies at Cornell: A Proposal for Curriculum Development
Ernesto Bassi, Associate Professor, Department of History
Judith Byfield, Professor, Department of History

4. Multicultural Cooperative Land Governance and Farming
Scott Peters, Professor, Department of Global Development
Christa Nunez, PhD student, Development Studies, Department of Global Development
Antonisha Owens, Community Research Partner
Stephen Henhawk, Gayogohó:nǫˀ Speaker, Teacher, and Historian
Michelle Seneca, Project Leader of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ Learning Project

5. Collaborations with Farmworkers to Address Racial Inequalities: Advocating for Legal, Workplace, and Health Justice
Mary Jo Dudley, Director of the Cornell Farmworker Program
Yesica Corona, Master of Public Health candidate

6. Barely Tolerated: An Ethnographic Film about Life in Uncertain Refuge and Deferred Deportation
Saida Hodžić, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

7. Refugees Know Things: A Podcast Series and an Installation
Saida Hodžić, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

8. The Sound of Silence: Mapping Immigrants’ Preferences and Use of Public Space through Social Media: Toward an Inclusive Design and Management of the Urban Commons
Maria Goula, Professor, Landscape Architecture
Cristobal Cheyre, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science
Duarte Santo, Lecturer, Landscape Architecture

9. Possible Landscapes: Documenting Environmental Experience in Trinidad and Tobago
Natalie Melas, Associate Professor, Department of Literatures in English
Tao DuFour, Assistant Professor, Architecture

10. Displaced and Uprooted: Stories of Belonging, Central American TPS Workers' Defiant Struggle for their Right to Stay Home in the U.S.
Ileen DeVault, Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History

11. Xenophobia Meter Project: Tracking Xenophobic Twitter Speech to Inform (and Shift) Policy
Beth Lyon, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

12. Critical Perspectives: Racism, Xenophobia, and Im/migration
Beth Lyon, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

13. From Invasive Others toward Embracing Each Other: Migration, Dispossession, and Place-Based Knowledge in the Arts of the Americas
Jolene Rickard, Associate Professor, Department of History Art and Visual Studies

14. Grassroots Transnational Networks Fortifying Salvadoran Rural Communities: From Santa Marta to Ithaca
Sofia A. Villenas, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

15. Food Beyond Borders: Visions of Hunting and Fishing in the Myanmar Diaspora
Kathryn Fiorella, Assistant Professor, Department of Public & Ecosystem Health
Nicole Tu-Muang, PhD student in Natural Resources and the Environment

Learn more about their Migrations projects on our website.