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A study that used photos taken by participants to spark conversation reveals firsthand accounts of how climate change, land use and dams on the Mekong River are threatening the future of the communities dependent on those ecosystems.
Cornell anthropologist Natasha Raheja publishes a new ethnographic study she conducted at the border of Jodhpur, India about Pakistani Hindus, and their interactions with computer typists who provide essential services to prospective migrants into India.
The photo used here is by Carol Mitchell under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed license.
Led by Migrations faculty Gunisha Kaur, associate professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, an intercampus collaboration aims to provide digital health care tools to pregnant refugee women with the support of a National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Catalyst Prize.
For this project, she collaborated with Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School and Migrations faculty, and Dr. Richard Boyer, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
New research authored by an ILR School doctoral student examines the interplay between private labor brokers and local state actors in Chinese migrant worker regulations.
Published in “International Migration Review” on Nov. 21, “Capacity and Priority: Explaining the Regulatory Roles of Labor Brokers in China's Newly Established Guestworker Program” found that the capacities and interests of the Chinese local government contribute to private labor dispatch agencies.
“The general public is becoming less accepting of asylum as a remedy because there are so many people being creative in applying for it,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.
Theresa Cardinal Brown, a distinguished visiting immigration scholar at Cornell Law School and a senior adviser at the Bipartisan Policy Center writes about actions to prioritize in tackling immigration reform.
Ian Kysel's work on migrant rights has been supported by the Migrations initiative.
For its work supporting international scholars whose work puts them at risk in their home countries, Cornell has been awarded the Institute of International Education’s Centennial Medal, which celebrates the achievements and leadership of individuals and institutions that have made important contributions to international education.
Andrew Farnsworth, a senior research associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, helped to explain the hurricane-flamingo connection. As a five-year-old, the article explains, he became fascinated by the movements of birds; “when he started work as a researcher, he discovered historical records of epic avian journeys.”
