Migration and Integration

How do we assess the progress, or the lack thereof, in the norms of global protection?

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED.

Roberto Suro examines the similarities between US and German migration mechanics, policies, and the political responses.

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic fieldwork and using film footage from a documentary on informal mining in the de-industrializing spaces of South Africa’s gold mines, Rosalind Morris considers how the social and material infrastructures of that sector have shaped the forms of life that are emerging in its ruins.

Syrian musician, educator, and poet Bashir Alshihabi joins scholar and curator Josh Kun to examine music’s role in understanding contemporary migration, displacement, and belonging, from Damascus to Berlin to Los Angeles.

In this talk, Josh Kun focuses on musical representations of contemporary migrant and refugee crises, across both the United States and Europe.

In Germany and America, the arts and sciences have provided important platforms for the social integration of recent immigrants. This discussion, hosted in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, will examine these two catalysts of integration in two expert panels.

In this lecture, historian Keith Watenpaugh discusses his historical and humanitarian work as well as the professional responsibilities facing scholars confronted by recent events in the Middle East.

In his talk, Airbus Distinguished Visitor David Miliband takes us from war zones in the Middle East to the heart of Europe to explain the crisis and show what can be done, not just by governments with the power to change policy but by citizens with the urge to change lives.

In this lecture, Nancy Foner explores why Islam has more significantly divided immigrants and the majority population in Western Europe than color-coded race has in the United States.