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Migrations Program

Cornell University

The Migrations Program is a community of interdisciplinary scholars who are thinking in innovative, multispecies ways about global migration challenges. We're building upon the work of Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge to inform real-world policies and outcomes for populations that migrate. 

Highlights

Group of people walking along a dirt path.

Migrations Conference Call for Abstracts

Submit your work on human mobility as a sociolegal and political process to present at our September conference. Due by April 10.
Still from "Possible Landscapes" (2024)

Migrations Film Series

Tickets are free to three migration documentaries this semester. Each film will be followed by conversations with filmmakers and campus experts.

News

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Botswana Shows How Smarter Cattle Herding Can Save Lions, Reopen Ancient Wildlife Pathways

Steven Osofsky, Migrations

Travel Grants Send Grad Students Abroad

Apply by March 6 for Summer 2026

Removing Southern African Fences May Help Wildlife, Boost Economy

Publications

All publications in this program

Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang

Sabrina Axster and Ida Danewid

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Food Sovereignty Across Borders: Fishing Among Myanmar Refugees in Upstate New York

Nicole T. Venker, Kum Jaa Lee, T. Bruce Lauber, Kathryn J. Fiorella

Southeast Asia Program

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"Corporeal Power"

Sabrina Axster and Ida Danewid

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Events

All events in this program

Detection Description Experiments for Migration and Xenophobia

10:00 am

Mann Library, 103

Nasser Abourahme, “In the Open Time of Dispossession: Camp, Colony, Palestine"

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium, G64

Venezuelan Perspectives on U.S. Interventionism

12:00 pm

Virtual

The Demography of Staying: Probing the Decline of Domestic Migration in the United States

1:25 pm

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2250

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