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"Stories of Belonging: Central American TPS Workers & the Defiant Struggle to Stay Home in the U.S." explores the historical struggle of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) migrant workers for union organizing and American citizenship. The project, funded by the Migrations initiative, features field interviews, timelines, photography and video. It explores the idea of home and whether, after decades of working and contributing to America’s economy, these workers feel like they belong in America.
“We are starting to see and will continue to see shifts in the range” of West Nile virus, says Laura Harrington, professor of entomology, “and shifts in some of the avian hosts that are most important.”
“It is a small step within a complex immigration system that can smooth the way for many individuals to get a work visa more quickly,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law.
“That displacement is causing them to go into forests that tend to have the greatest conservation value and are disproportionately occupied by Indigenous peoples,” said study author Amanda Rodewald, from the Lab of Ornithology.
In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important to dozens of species of migratory birds, according to a new study.
Alexandra Dufresne, professor of practice, writes this piece on student protests and why universities should keep immigration consequences in mind.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, says, “Courts will have to decide how much deference to give President Biden and whether his lawyers have crafted the executive order carefully enough.”
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, discusses the state of the U.S. immigration system.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, an immigration law scholar at Cornell University Law School, said that reforming the immigration system and expanding access to counsel should both happen simultaneously.
