With temperatures spiking to 110 degrees once more, Jeetram Yadav sat in the shade on his farm outside New Delhi and cupped a handful of this season’s disappointing wheat between his calloused palms. The grains were brown and the size of cumin seeds, shriveled by heat.

“There are a lot of reasons [including] high turnover of officers pressure to decide cases quickly .... if [officers] see the same kind of case over and over again, you sort of feel like you know that type of case without really probing into the individual facts of the case. ... There’s a lot of disparity in all of the USCIS asylum offices and it got worse during the Trump administration. There was pressure from headquarters to make it harder to win approval. So approval rates across the country went down, they just seem to go down more in Boston than in some of the other USCIS asylum officers,,” said Yale-Loehr, who is co-director at Cornell’s Asylum Appeals Clinic.

"I was encouraged to ask difficult yet necessary questions," said Luis Tamayo '22, a former undergraduate Migrations scholar. 

As many European countries welcome Ukrainians fleeing war, recent charges against a migrant advocate in Rome offer a reminder that popular anti-migration sentiments persist across Europe.

Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge has awarded grants totaling more than $500,000 to support faculty research addressing wide-ranging questions around domestic and global migration. Funded projects reflect the initiative’s interdisciplinary priorities of racism, dispossession, and migration in the U.S. and international, multispecies migration.

“Almost every reputable report that I have seen has found that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native born U.S. citizens,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell University who teaches immigration law.

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a new lawsuit against the Biden Administration last week challenging the allegedly “unlawful” move to grant asylum officers authority to decide some asylum cases, no one was surprised. It’s the 11th immigration-related lawsuit Paxton has filed against the Administration since President Biden took office.

U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington this week to discuss a record number of Cubans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and to determine whether Cuba is willing to start accepting Cuban deportees.

Eleanor Paynter and Rachel Beatty Riedl, Migrations postdoctoral fellow and faculty member respectively, co-write this article about how a new United Kingdom program will endanger migrants, not protect them. 

Jolene Rickard, a member of the Tuscarora Nation and a professor of art history, says that the Venice Biennale’s decision to devote a pavilion entirely to Sámi artists is significant. “It acknowledges the Sámi as a nation that exists across contiguous borders; it makes space for a different notion of nation.”