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Cornell researchers have the opportunity to take a long stride toward an alternative future full of possibility, with support from our new Global Grand Challenge: The Future.
Interdisciplinary teams of faculty and researchers from all Cornell colleges, schools and departments are encouraged to identify a research issue of global importance and plan a path to a successful alternative future that is sound, equitable and sustainable. Letters of intent are due Feb. 26.
The results are in! Check out this year's winners of our creative writing and art competition. Students shared how migration shapes their communities through essays, poetry, and art.
“Each of the three branches of government has a role to play in immigration law and policy, and each has failed,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “The result: a quagmire, where nothing gets resolved and matters get worse every day. Every branch of government is to blame.”
More than 80% of global land area needed to maintain human well-being and meet biodiversity targets is unprotected, according to a new study led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Sophie Pinkham, comparative literature professor of the practice, has won the 2023 British Journalism Award for Travel Journalism. Her winning feature investigates a refugee crisis in Poland’s primeval forest.
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.