The study of migration helps make the world a better place for populations on the move. Migrations researchers at Cornell promote human rights for migrants, study migratory bird species, and support scholars under threat.
Call for Abstracts: Migration in Contentious Political Times
We're soliciting abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and the community that examine human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by borders, state power, labor markets, and inequality. We welcome submissions that situate migration within broader ecological and social systems.
You can present your work as a poster or with an oral presentation at our conference in September. More details coming soon!
As part of a burgeoning interest in analyses of the colonial roots of contemporary state practices, scholars in the field of International Relations have sought to “decolonize” the study of security…
Nicole T. Venker, Kum Jaa Lee, T. Bruce Lauber, Kathryn J. Fiorella
This paper explores the role of fishing among Myanmar refugees in the United States through the lens of food sovereignty. Food sovereignty emphasizes the rights of people and communities to healthy,…
Migrations postdoctoral fellow Sabrina Axster coauthors a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology called “Corporeal Power.”
The 2023 World Development Report, titled “Migrants, Refugees, and Societies,” analyses the state policies, laws, and labour market forces that determine the ability of migrants to improve their…
Walker DePuy, Paul Thung, Viola Schreer, Wendy M. Erb
To better understand and address global human–environment crises, interdisciplinary collaborations across the natural and social sciences have become increasingly common in conservation. Within such…
