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Stephen Yale-Loehr, Professor of Immigration Law at Cornell Law School, joins host Chris Lyon this week. They discuss Yale-Loehr’s work in immigration law and research on refugees in America.
Scholars from Ghana, South Africa, Singapore, China, Japan, Australia , the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the U.S. will present research at an Oct. 6-7 conference at the ILR School on labor market inequality for global migrants in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.
Natural disasters may be impossible to prevent, but much of the devastation that occurs in their aftermath – specifically the forced displacement of people – is driven by government policy and can be averted, according to Maria Cristina Garcia, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
In 2021, Cornell Law School received a grant of $1.6 million from the Charles Koch Foundation for a two-year project to study ways to improve immigration law and policy. Thanks to that generous funding, the Law School has hired two postdoctoral research associates and two distinguished visiting scholars to expand upon its research capabilities in this area.
Four dissident critics now living in exile in the United States will share their experiences at Dissidence: Exiled Writers on Resistance and Risk, a reading and reception on Friday, September 23.
Nine Afghan undergraduates from Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women (AUW) fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021, arriving in Ithaca four months later.
Global Cornell has led a robust campus and community collaboration to bring the students to Cornell and support them as they adjust to campus life.
Gunisha Kaur joins the new cohort of Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars at the National Academy of Medicine.
Following litigation attempting to rescind the program’s protections in recent years, the Biden administration has presented the new regulation as a way to “preserve and fortify” DACA. But in the midst of ongoing legal battles, DACA remains on life support, and President Biden and Congress will need to do more to ensure a better future for Dreamers.
Each year, National Hispanic Heritage Month offers the opportunity to celebrate the culture and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx people in the U.S. This year’s theme, Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation, is meant to showcase the diversity of this population.
