The New School as a Sanctuary Campus
Taking a stance and making our campuses accessible, safe, and truly open
The Problem with Humanitarian Borders
Toward a new framework of justice
The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in recent political and media debates about undocumented migrants crossing into Europe and North America. The unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States reached the designation of “humanitarian crisis” last summer, i.e. 2014, whereas the most recent tipping point in the Mediterranean came in April 2015, when at least five boats sank and close to 1,200 people drowned …