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.
We're bringing together migration scholars for a conference about migration, sustainability, and belonging in the contemporary moment. Students, scholars, and researchers from the Cornell community will share work that examines human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by borders, state power, labor markets, and inequality.
Patricia Campos-Medina organizes an exhibit about migrant workers.
Ian Kysel presents African Migrant Rights Principles.
Amanda Rodewald studies migratory birds in Central America.
Danielle Obisie Orlu, Migrations graduate fellow, writes this report for Cornell's Migrant Rights Initiative about the legal protection of migrants rights after the UN's adoption of the Global…
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…
