Students with vulnerable immigration status are increasingly facing distinct obstacles as a result of a shifting immigration landscape. These developments present unique challenges to all aspects of students’ experience as well as their futures.

This virtual webinar will discuss new and emerging immigration policy updates affecting students with vulnerable immigration status at Cornell and provide guidance on how faculty and staff can best navigate these challenges to support students. Speakers from Cornell Law School, Undocumented & DACA Student Support, and CUPD will discuss important developments, highlight institutional policies, and outline the best ways to support students with vulnerable immigration status. Registration is required to attend, open to the Cornell community.

Register using the following link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nlFn0c2HRXamz6MLbsD5wQ

International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.

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Join us for a conversation discussing the historical and contemporary relationship between the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, beginning with their acquisition in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. As sites of U.S. territorial expansion, both were governed through military rule and colonial policies justified by racial and economic ideologies.

While Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, the Philippines moved toward independence by 1946, creating divergent but interconnected paths shaped by migration, labor extraction, and strategic military interests. The discussion moves from this shared colonial foundation to contemporary issues—including large-scale migration, economic dependency, grassroots resistance, and debates over political status. It highlights how diasporic communities engage with questions of identity and belonging and how movements for self-determination continue to challenge the legacy of the U.S. empire today.

Panelists

Christine Bacareza Balance is an associate professor of performing and media arts and Asian American studies at Cornell University. Her work as a scholar and cultural worker bridges performance, popular culture, and Asian American studies, with a particular focus on Filipino and Filipino-American experiences. Her research and teaching explore how music, media, and performance shape diasporic identity, memory, and political life. She is also engaged in community-based and public humanities work that connects academia to broader conversations around race, empire, and cultural expression.

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Literatures in English and the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. She is a scholar of Afro-Latinx and Caribbean cultures whose work explores how race, migration, and religion shape identity and resistance across the Americas. Her research and teaching center on Afro-diasporic spiritual practices, visual and literary cultures, and the everyday experiences of Latinx communities. She engages questions of colonialism, borders, and belonging through a focus on cultural expression and community knowledge.

Host

This event is organized by the Migrations Program's undergraduate Migrations scholars and co-sponsored by Latina/o Studies Program and Asian American Studies

Don't miss our first event hosted by the Migrations scholars on April 21: Margins and Mobilization: Migrant Worker Precarity and Power in the Trump-era Economy.

Join us for a conversation on the role of migrant workers in the U.S. economy. Bringing together scholars and activists, the panel will examine how immigration laws and border enforcement function as tools of labor control, shape markets, and produce systemic vulnerability. The discussion will trace how these dynamics have intensified under the Trump administration amid the rise of ethnonationalism and increasingly punitive immigration policy, as well as how migrant workers have been pushing back and what forms of resistance have emerged.

This event is of interest to all those studying labor, immigration, human rights, and social justice to better understand the intersection of migration policy, politics, and the everyday lives of migrant workers.

Panelists

Aly Wane is a human rights organizer based in Syracuse, New York. Originally from Senegal, he has worked on anti-war, economic, racial, and immigrant justice. He has been involved with the American Friends Service Committee, the Workers' Center of Central NY, and has been on the Board of the Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse, a politically progressive interfaith organization. He is a member of the Syracuse Peace Council and the Black Immigration Network, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and the UndocuBlack Network. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Immigrant Justice Network and Freedom University out of Georgia.

Shannon Gleeson is professor of labor relations, law, and history in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research focuses on the labor rights of migrant workers and the enforcement of those rights, the vulnerabilities migrant workers face, migrant organizing and anti-capitalist currents within the immigrant rights movement, and the policing of migrant workers.

M. Cornejo is an assistant professor in communication. Trained as an interpersonal communication researcher, Cornejo examines how legally stigmatized migrants’ communication strategies to obtain humanization and access to essential resources (e.g., education, health care access) alter their self-view, psychosocial health, general well-being, and social mobility in the U.S.

Host

This event is organized by the Migrations Program's undergraduate Migrations scholars.

Don't miss our second event hosted by the Migrations scholars on April 22: From Colony to Diaspora: Enduring Legacies of U.S. Territorial Rule in Puerto Rico & the Philippines.