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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. 

Since 2020, Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge has awarded $1.9 million to 38 faculty-led projects addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration. Check out more Migrations research spotlights.

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How to Match Protections Along with Skills? Limitations of the Match-Motive Matrix for Temporary Migrant Workers

Ashwin Kumar, Beth Lyon, and Shannon Gleeson

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Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present

Eleanor Paynter

Emergency in Transit responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the global north. This capacious, interdisciplinary study reformulates Europe's so-called "migrant crisis" from…

Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson

In Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston, Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson recount how local and multi-level contexts shape the creation, contestation, and implementation of immigrant rights…

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Arresting Movement: The History of German Immigration Detention Beyond the Camp

Sabrina Axster

Intersection of Narco Trafficking, Enforcement and Bird Conservation in the Americas

Amanda D. Rodewald et al.

Complex social challenges such as narco trafficking can have unexpected consequences for biodiversity conservation. Here we show how international counter-drug strategies may increase the risk of…

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Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas

Edited by Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi

This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic…

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Fuzzy Borders: Media, Migration Brokerage, and State Bureaucracy

Natasha Raheja

In the western Indian city of Jodhpur, computer typists provide migration brokerage services to Pakistani Hindu refugee-migrants and Indian immigration officers. Such encounters and their…

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‘We try to Humanise their Stories’: Interrogating the Representation of Migrants and Refugees Through the Shift from ‘…

Sabrina Axster

The World We Became: Map Quest 2350, A Speculative Atlas Beyond Climate Crisis

Tao Leigh Goffe, Shannon Gleeson, Atif Khan, Austin Kocher, Christin Washington , Judith Salcido , Rewa Phansalkar , Ryan Persadie , Anisa Jackson, Elspeth Iralu, Erica Violet Lee, Hashem Abushama, Nisrin Elamin, Randa Tawil, et al.

Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, this essay introduces a speculative cartography experiment entitled The World We Became: Map Quest 2350. A collaboration between a…

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Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on Digital Tools for U.S. Asylum Applicants Seeking Healthcare and Legal Information

Aparajita Bhandari, Diana Freed, Tara Pilato, Faten Taki, Gunisha Kaur, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Jane Powers, Tao Long, and Natalya N. Bazarova

There is a concerning lack of clear and accurate information around accessing public benefits for asylum applicants in the United States (U.S.), which has been shown to negatively affect their…

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