Migrations
We live in a world on the move. All living things—humans, animals, insects, plants, and pathogens—migrate from place to place on our planet. Our cultural products, practices, and messages travel with and beyond us. The Einaudi Center is addressing the critical problems of our world on the move with Global Cornell’s Global Grand Challenge: Migrations.
Researching, Teaching, and Building for a World on the Move
Launched in October 2019, the Migrations initiative supports researchers and students from eight colleges and schools across Cornell.
A research team focused on advancing the health of U.S. refugee and immigrant populations represents the Einaudi Center, with co-funding from Einaudi and Migrations. The Einaudi Center’s team is one of three interdisciplinary research teams launching Cornell’s Migrations Lab in 2020. Einaudi faculty and students are active in other Migrations-funded teams, projects, and activities across campus. The Einaudi Center hosts a migration studies minor for undergraduates and offers frequent migration-themed events and funding opportunities.
Refugee and Immigrant Health
The Einaudi Center’s Migrations team concentrates on improving the health and well-being of refugee and immigrant populations in the United States.
Working at the nexus of law, medicine, and technology, the team is investigating how increasing immigrants’ knowledge about legal rights can help them engage with health care systems. The research will produce new digital tools to inform immigrants of their rights and increase their participation in health systems and public benefits.
Gunisha Kaur (Weill Cornell Medicine) and Stephen Yale-Loehr (Cornell Law School) received dual funding to serve as Einaudi’s faculty fellows, leading a multi-campus collaboration that will include a postdoctoral fellow in fall 2020.
Faculty Fellows
Gunisha Kaur
Gunisha Kaur is an anesthesiologist specializing in global health and human rights, particularly among displaced populations. She serves as medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights and as director of the Anesthesiology Global Health Initiative.
Stephen Yale-Loehr
Stephen Yale-Loehr is a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School and a counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, New York. A coauthor of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading treatise on U.S. immigration law, he works with refugees and people who are detained.
Collaborators
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin is Robert V. Tishman ’37 Professor of Computer Science, Associate Dean for Impact, and founder of the Health Tech hub at Cornell Tech. She was a 2018 MacArthur fellow.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eleanor Paynter
Eleanor Paynter graduated from the Ohio State University with a doctorate in comparative studies. She studies migration from Africa to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea, using immigrant stories to analyze displacement and asylum.
